Vocabulary
Lethal
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
very harmful or destructive.
Urdu meaning
مہلک، جان لیوا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The greater the awareness of this lethal combination, the higher the sensitivity to disaster risks and the better the preparedness.
- And when arrogance mixes with ignorance, the results are lethal.
- Trump`s political appointee as ambassador to Nato Matthew Whitaker seemed to have lost it in an interview with Fox News when, in a fit of rage, he accused China of putting on display lethal weaponry `in all likelihood stolen from us`.
- The upper Indus Basin is dotted with more than 3,000 glacial lakes that burst due to heavy rains and generated lethal flows.
- This latest emergency comes while the country is still reeling from lethal flash floods in KP and as a 7-km-long lake formed after a landslide blocked a river in Gilgit-Baltistan, forcing precautionary evacuations.
Synonyms
fatal,mortal, deadly, causing death, life-threatening, death-dealing, murderous
Curator example
“the Krakatoa eruption was the most lethal on record”
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