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Meanings of
venomous
in English
Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom.
bitter
deadly
acid
blistering
acrid
caustic
virulent
sulphurous
vitriolic
acerbic
Related terms
unpleasant
toxic
Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful.
vicious
poisonous
Related terms
malicious
Synonyms
Examples for "
bitter
"
bitter
deadly
acid
blistering
acrid
Examples for "
bitter
"
1
Disputes leave
bitter
problems, however, that no amount of money ever solves.
2
This new reality has caused
bitter
exchanges on social media, straining friendships.
3
A
bitter
controversy in debate with Mr. Blaine assumed a personal character.
4
A
bitter
reconciliation between Poland and West Germany has already taken place.
5
I apparently waited too long, however, because they'd already gone horribly
bitter
.
1
Some rockets get through, putting innocent civilians, including children, at
deadly
risk.
2
The Mediterranean Sea is the world's most
deadly
border area for migrants.
3
It was the second
deadly
suicide attack on police in two days.
4
Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a
deadly
short circuit.
5
Strategies changed as conditions changed, and they had taken a
deadly
turn.
1
We follow four separate
acid
attack victims who highlight this growing trend.
2
By 2003, that particular
acid
house revolution had come to an end.
3
It is used in the laboratory in the preparation of hydrosulphuric
acid
:
4
One example is benzoic
acid
,
now a common preservative in prepared foods.
5
Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric
acid
,
five.
1
Background: The use of rituximab for refractory autoimmune
blistering
diseases is increasing.
2
South Africa, Australia, and Argentina started the year with
blistering
heat waves.
3
Anecdotes enliven the text, including a
blistering
critique of Ernst & Young.
4
Maybe galloping growth, not
blistering
growth, said Roth Capital analyst Craig Irwin.
5
There is no better example than Chautauqua's
blistering
win in Hong Kong.
1
The only sure fire thing to stop the
acrid
condition is rain.
2
The air was heavy with the
acrid
fumes of smoke and powder.
3
Mrs. Reid was not cheerful; she was rather of an
acrid
disposition.
4
Smoke rolled down into the room, and the
acrid
fumes grew sharper.
5
When fresh the root is very
acrid
,
and will blister the skin.
1
Your effort to be
caustic
is the sweetest thing in the world.
2
The lunar
caustic
was applied in half an hour after the accident.
3
We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of
caustic
soda.
4
The action of lime is greatest in its
caustic
or unslacked form.
5
The
caustic
Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
1
The wind had abated its violence; coming now in fitful,
virulent
puffs.
2
Recent press reaction to asylum seekers arriving in Britain seems uniquely
virulent
.
3
I don't believe it will become
virulent
,
he was quoted as saying.
4
Strikingly, four Isd mutants express substantial resistance to
virulent
fungal pathogen isolates.
5
Russian contagion will definitely not prove as
virulent
as the Asian phenomenon.
1
The very clouds that hide the sun are full of
sulphurous
heat.
2
The
sulphurous
stream of Albula suggests to him several passages of Martial.
3
Much steam issues from the many fissures, accompanied by
sulphurous
acid gas.
4
Of all the players, the criticism of him was the most
sulphurous
.
5
A bucket of
sulphurous
chemicals might be the least noxious of it.
1
For example, it describes my column of a week ago as
vitriolic
.
2
The
vitriolic
power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
3
Years later
vitriolic
supporters still resorted to chants calling him a paedophile.
4
Trump's
vitriolic
anti-Muslim campaign statements are thus totally irrelevant to the analysis.
5
But to the Episcopal Church the priest dispensed the most
vitriolic
criticism.
1
Alastair Campbell, the former press secretary to Tony Blair, was typically
acerbic
.
2
Posts on his
acerbic
blog were picked up by mainstream news outlets.
3
Rothschild has said the increasingly
acerbic
fight is about investment and not personalities.
4
Erdoğan's
acerbic
response on Monday suggested the EU's concerns were justified.
5
He's quite withdrawn and shy and a bit
acerbic
,
she said.
1
And the volcanoes in the Corlian Valley have high
sulfurous
gas emissions.
2
She stared into the
sulfurous
light of his eyes for a moment.
3
The way was dank and sour, sometimes cut with a
sulfurous
gust.
4
Thorne coughed in the
sulfurous
air, and walked back into the sunlight.
5
Now go. He stamps a hoof and disappears with a
sulfurous
blast.
1
Thereupon followed a soft discussion that was as near being
acerb
as nails are near velvet paws.
2
He had been giving a dinner followed by a concert, and the deafening strains of the music clashed with my
acerb
spirit, irritating me excessively.
Usage of
venomous
in English
1
His
venomous
and provocative attack on the State of Israel was unwarranted.
2
He did not answer Sam, but gave him a swift
venomous
look.
3
Some of the smallest snakes, in tropical climes, are the most
venomous
.
4
The feelings leapt alive, equally
venomous
from the wound and the caress.
5
All other big snakes in India are pythons, which are not
venomous
.
6
There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and
venomous
master.
7
Being the girl she was, much
venomous
village social stir had resulted.
8
In the end, their
venomous
persistence must make an end of him.
9
During this dangerous time, beware of serpents and all other
venomous
creatures.
10
The huge smith laughed a
venomous
laugh that echoed through the cave.
11
She could never have imbued McQuillan with quite the same
venomous
ring.
12
No sound, nothing but the old dark
marsh
-
venomous
atmosphere of the place.
13
Gentle let go of the man's arm as though it were
venomous
.
14
Again and again the reader asks himself why Iago is so
venomous
.
15
The
venomous
juice being yellow, the whole fibrous mass takes that colour.
16
Like the rivalry of Real Madrid and Barcelona, but way more
venomous
.
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venomous
Adjective
Frequent collocations
venomous snake
most venomous
venomous look
venomous reptile
venomous serpent
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Venomous
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