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PERNICIOUS

\pɜːnˈɪʃəs], \pɜːnˈɪʃəs], \p_ɜː_n_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\

Definitions of PERNICIOUS

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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exceedingly harmful

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

exceedingly harmful

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Perniciously.
Perniciousness.
Killing utterly: hurtful: destructive: highly injurious.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Destructive; hurtful; noxious.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Tending to a fatal issue.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Destructive in character; of diseases, virulent, of a very grave or deadly type.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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