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How to pronounce “virulent”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of virulent with real speech in context.
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- The Deep Sea's Medicinal Secrets
destroy the most virulent of cancers
- Definition summary
- Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
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How to pronounce virulent
The Deep Sea's Medicinal Secrets

destroy the most virulent of cancers
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A Deep Dive Into “virulent”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
- (figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
- (medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
- (microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis. [from 1953]
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