adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a virulent poison (= one that makes someone very ill or kills them )
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Scorpions produce a virulent poison.
virulent (= causing many people to become ill )
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Why was this particular strain of the virus so virulent?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Some plants have more virulent poisons.
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But now suppose the pathogen becomes the tiniest fraction more virulent: say the infectivity becomes one point zero one.
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The suspicion is that the process created a new strain, or strains, of more virulent disease.
most
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He tried to organise a debate, and invited the most virulent protesters to come on stage and put their case.
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These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
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While companies talk about sustainable agriculture, they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by their most virulent herbicides.
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Novick stops short of saying so, but it is among blacks that anti-semitism is most virulent .
particularly
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When Robert was twelve and I seven, both my parents and Ann were smitten by a particularly virulent flu germ.
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But particularly virulent forms of strep have come and gone throughout history.
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Alana was diagnosed April 5 with acute myeloid leukemia, type M-7, a particularly virulent form of cancer.
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form
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Restoring culture can just as easily lead to a new and virulent form of fundamentalism as to a revival of cultural diversity.
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But particularly virulent forms of strep have come and gone throughout history.
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He had developed a vaccine using virulent forms of polio that were then killed with formaldehyde and injected.
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Alana was diagnosed April 5 with acute myeloid leukemia, type M-7, a particularly virulent form of cancer.
strain
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A virulent strain of the disease malignant catarrhal fever is on the increase.
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They were scared by the virulent strains of virus Salk insisted on using in his vaccine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a virulent critic of the United Nations
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a more virulent strain of HIV
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had developed a vaccine using virulent forms of polio that were then killed with formaldehyde and injected.
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He tried to organise a debate, and invited the most virulent protesters to come on stage and put their case.
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Occasionally, a virus is created with a combination of genes that makes it especially virulent .
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That lofty notion spread like a virulent germ into every law school in the nation.
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The least resistant hosts and the least virulent parasites were killed in each generation.
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When Robert was twelve and I seven, both my parents and Ann were smitten by a particularly virulent flu germ.
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While companies talk about sustainable agriculture, they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by their most virulent herbicides.