Virulent (adj)
vir-oo-lent
(of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.
Bitterly hostile.
Late Middle English (originally describing a poisoned wound): from Latin virulentus, from virus ‘poison’ (see virus).
Example sentences
“The virus was so virulent, it killed everything before the weekend was out.”
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