virulent

IPA: vˈɪrʌɫʌnt

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.

Examples of "virulent" in Sentences

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However, three types are what could be described as virulent: wild garlic, bamboo and Japanese knotweed.
The term virulent, you see, is used to mean something virus-like, especially in the manner and speed it spreads itself.
The gravest manifestation of the power of violence to remain alive and virulent occurs when the violated become abusers.
LEAVITT: We'll have a pandemic if a highly-efficient and virulent, that is to say very powerful virus, begins to pass from person to person.
The earliest meaning of the adjective virulent from the Latin virus, “poison” was the nature of an infection “marked by a rapid, malignant course.”