virulent
/ˈvɪɹ(j)ələnt/ adjective C2- Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
- Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious. · The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president.
- Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
- Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
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It was consumption of the most virulent kind.
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