adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lethal injection (= one that kills someone )
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Pinkerton was executed by lethal injection.
a lethal/deadly weapon (= one that can kill )
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A knife is a lethal weapon.
a lethal/fatal dose (= an amount that kills you )
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She took a lethal dose of painkillers.
lethal cocktail
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a lethal cocktail of painkillers and whisky
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence.
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They give off thick black toxic fumes, which often prove to be more lethal than the flames themselves.
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They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be.
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Infidelity had become freshly dangerous, potentially much more lethal to a marriage than adultery had been previously.
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The snake has enemies more lethal than Laverne's memorable mild teasing.
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This is partly because single status at younger ages appears to have been consistently even more lethal for men than for women.
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When mobbing occurs, the situation is far too unpredictable from second to second to suit even the most lethal predator.
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Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer.
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The stuff that furs up coronary arteries must be one of the most lethal substances known to man.
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Gastric cancer and especially oesophageal cancer ate two of the most lethal gastrointestinal cancers in terms of cure rate and survival.
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He synthesises new chemical poisons of the most lethal kind and sprays the countryside wholesale.
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It was these, not so much the explosions perse that made the Krakatoa eruption the most lethal on record.
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And it promised to be the most weird - was definitely the most lethal .
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Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most lethal malignancies in the world.
potentially
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Police in Gloucestershire have made their first seizure of the potentially lethal drug.
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Salesmen warning DOOR-TO-DOOR salesmen are posing as Fire Brigade representatives to sell potentially lethal fire extinguishers, it has been disclosed.
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This is a potentially lethal combination, but modern techniques help to safeguard us from those risks.
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A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal .
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They're lovely to look at, but remember that old Christmas tree lights are potentially lethal .
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They say they come across thousands of examples of potentially lethal appliances.
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He'd had more than enough of her reckless approach to potentially lethal situations.
■ NOUN
cocktail
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In a flourish of biochemical altruism, they manufacture deadly molecules and then turn this lethal cocktail upon themselves.
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It probably illustrates it's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars.
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After all, each state comprised an often lethal cocktail of peoples.
combination
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N New tank syndrome: A lethal combination of all the problems mentioned in this article.
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Not to mention that lethal combination of hands and strength.
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Together however, these factors can prove a lethal combination .
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This is a potentially lethal combination , but modern techniques help to safeguard us from those risks.
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The little church has suffered from the rigours of time and town planning, normally a lethal combination , and survived.
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An aptly named gas, discovered in 1766, it had that potentially lethal combination of having both explosive and lifting properties.
dose
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Operators received lethal doses of radiation while needlessly reconnecting the water supply to the devastated reactor.
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The prison staff member will then begin to administer lethal doses of three chemicals.
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Some workers received lethal doses because the rest of the site was not evacuated.
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What effect on pain might, say, three-quarters of the lethal dose have had?
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Usually one of Robert's business prospects would be invited for a lethal dose of glamour.
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The river still carries a lethal dose of poisons.
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Shipman was convicted last year of murdering 15 female patients with lethal doses of diamorphine.
drug
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Police in Gloucestershire have made their first seizure of the potentially lethal drug .
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Some one else will inject lethal drugs into his bloodstream.
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None saw his executioners spend several minutes hunting for a vein to administer the lethal drugs .
injection
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In May 1986 the Supreme Court rejected his final appeals and Pinkerton was executed by lethal injection .
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McVeigh is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at a federal prison in Terre Haute.
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California has executed four San Quentin inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, the last two by lethal injection .
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His four-minute execution by lethal injection in Indianain the United States was perhaps the most minutely scrutinised death in history.
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You know, lethal injection , the needle.
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Death will come by lethal injection , rather than cyanide gas, since gassing has been challenged in California as unduly cruel.
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He would be the first California death row inmate to be executed by lethal injection .
weapon
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Bearing in mind that the knife is a lethal weapon , what happens if you get it wrong?
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Roughly half of child killers used a gun, while 16 percent used their own hands and feet as lethal weapons .
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As I couldn't take Lisabeth with me, it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon .
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Being in charge of a lethal weapon , so to speak.
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Sentencing Harris, Lord Sutherland, told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent.
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Atkinson has a lethal weapon in Dean Saunders - recruited from Liverpool - who is aiming to wreck United's dream.
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For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lethal cocktail of pollutants is being poured into Scotland's coastal waters, according to Greenpeace.
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a lethal dose of heroin
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Almost any sharp or pointed object can potentially be a lethal weapon.
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Most pesticides are lethal to earthworms on or near the surface.
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That cocktail looks pretty lethal .
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The poison produced by the frog's skin is so lethal that it can paralyze a bird or a monkey immediately.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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California has executed four San Quentin inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, the last two by lethal injection.
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Death will come by lethal injection, rather than cyanide gas, since gassing has been challenged in California as unduly cruel.
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If his execution proceeds as scheduled, he would become the first to die by lethal injection in California.
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Kaczynski sought to build increasingly lethal bombs by improving his bomb design and his bomb-making techniques.
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More than 40,000 of these lethal machines were sold between 1986 and 1988.
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Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
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The bite itself is painful, but never lethal .