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Meanings of destroying angel in English
Portuguese
amanita phalloides 
Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills.
Synonyms
Examples for "death cap"
Examples for "death cap"
1
He then yielded himself to the executioner, who placed the death cap over his face.
2
The death cap is extremely toxic and responsible for 90 per cent of all mushroom poisoning deaths.
3
Look carefully and you may find a few hallucinogenic 'shrooms, and poisonous death cap and destroying angel mushrooms.
4
The death cap is a large mushroom, with a cap ranging from light olive green to greenish yellow in colour.
5
Amatoxin (ingested) Derived from the death cap family of mushrooms, amatoxin destroys your liver and kidneys over several days.
1
They were afraid of her; it would be like dancing with the death angel.
2
Perhaps this victim was asleep when the death angel came.
3
That mysterious shadow thrown by the wings of the approaching death angel settled on his face.
4
The wing of the death angel touches him.
5
The death angel is generally met with more calmness by the dying than by surviving friends.
1
It has been described an Amanita phalloides poisoning in a female child of 2 years old with positive outcome.
Usage of destroying angel in English
1
The Unknown seemed to tower above him like a destroying angel.
2
The sight maddened him, and like a destroying angel he was among them.
3
Mrs. Knight rushed into her husband's presence like a destroying angel.
4
He is a destroying angel in moving through the still watches of the night.
5
The destroying angel has overtaken the sinner in his sins.
6
The man had come like a destroying angel between them and their fondest hopes.
7
I trust the destroying angel will pass by this house!
8
Oh, chance does not roam, like a destroying angel, through that 'snow-powder of stars!'
9
For nine days Peggy wrestled with the destroying angel.
10
The destroying angel was, however, fearfully at work.
11
An unscrupulous man in the editorial chair may smite as with the wing of a destroying angel.
12
All the houses thus marked God said would be spared when the destroying angel passed through the land.
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The Norman slew like a bright destroying angel, breathing the swift and silent wrath of God upon mankind.
14
The destroying angel guards this threshold.
15
The destroying angel has gone forth through this land to execute the fearful penalties of God's broken law.
16
It is called a destroying angel.
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