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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
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Meaning of "virulent" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VIRULENT

From Latin vīrulentus full of poison, from vīrus poison.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VIRULENT

virulent  [ˈvɪrʊlənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIRULENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Virulent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VIRULENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Virulence

Virulence is, by MeSH definition, the degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of parasites as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the tissues of the host. The pathogenicity of an organism - its ability to cause disease - is determined by its virulence factors. The noun virulence derives from the adjective virulent. Virulent can describe either disease severity or a pathogen's infectivity. The word virulent derives from the Latin word virulentus, meaning "a poisoned wound" or "full of poison." In an ecological context, virulence can be defined as the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. Virulence can be understood in terms of proximate causes—those specific traits of the pathogen that help make the host ill—and ultimate causes—the evolutionary pressures that lead to virulent traits occurring in a pathogen strain.

Definition of virulent in the English dictionary

The first definition of virulent in the dictionary is extremely infective. Other definition of virulent is having a rapid course and violent effect. Virulent is also extremely poisonous, injurious, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIRULENT


ambulant
ˈæmbjʊlənt
anticoagulant
ˌæntɪkəʊˈæɡjʊlənt
avirulent
æˈvɪrʊlənt
coagulant
kəʊˈæɡjʊlənt
flatulent
ˈflætjʊlənt
flocculant
ˈflɒkjʊlənt
flocculent
ˈflɒkjʊlənt
fraudulent
ˈfrɔːdjʊlənt
inoculant
ɪˈnɒkjʊlənt
opulent
ˈɒpjʊlənt
petulant
ˈpɛtjʊlənt
pulverulent
pʌlˈvɛrʊlənt
purulent
ˈpjʊərʊlənt
simulant
ˈsɪmjʊlənt
Solent
ˈsəʊlənt
stimulant
ˈstɪmjʊlənt
succulent
ˈsʌkjʊlənt
truculent
ˈtrʌkjʊlənt
turbulent
ˈtɜːbjʊlənt
volant
ˈvəʊlənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIRULENT

virtuosa
virtuose
virtuosi
virtuosic
virtuosity
virtuoso
virtuosoship
virtuous
virtuous circle
virtuously
virtuousness
virucidal
virulence
virulency
virulently
viruliferous
virus
virus chip
virus-like
virusoid

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIRULENT

acidulent
crapulent
equivalent
esculent
excellent
feculent
hypervirulent
inesculent
lent
luculent
mucopurulent
nonturbulent
patulent
puberulent
seropurulent
silent
supervirulent
talent
temulent
violent

Synonyms and antonyms of virulent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VIRULENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «virulent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of virulent

Translation of «virulent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIRULENT

Find out the translation of virulent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of virulent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «virulent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恶毒的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

violento
570 millions of speakers

English

virulent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विषमय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضراوة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вирулентным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

virulento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যন্ত ক্ষতিকর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

virulent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beracun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

feindselig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悪意に満ちた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신랄한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Virulent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiểm độc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீரியத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öldürücü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

virulento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zjadliwy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вірулентним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

virulent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λοιμογόνο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

virulente
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

virulent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

virulente
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of virulent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRULENT»

The term «virulent» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.083 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRULENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «virulent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «virulent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about virulent

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10 QUOTES WITH «VIRULENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word virulent.
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John Connally
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
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Ann Hood
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'
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Ann Hood
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
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Jerome K. Jerome
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
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Charles Krauthammer
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
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Jill Lepore
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.
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Joe Lhota
I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.
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David Limbaugh
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
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Shimon Peres
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRULENT»

Discover the use of virulent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to virulent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Virulent: The Release
Lucy King is only an hour away from embarking on the most incredible vacation of her life: White sandy beaches in a tropical paradise, snorkeling and sunbathing in peaceful tranquility.
Shelbi Wescott, 2013
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The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent ...
The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings.
Nick Land, 2002
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The Little Book of Pandemics: 50 of the World's Most ...
From rashes, tremors, nausea, fever, dizziness, swelling, fainting, bleeding, spasms, blindness, shock, coma and death, here is a fascinating insight into 50 of the most virulent and vicious plagues, pandemics and infectious diseases ...
Pete Moore, 2007
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Keys to Unlocking the Biofilm Phenotype of a Virulent ...
Stewart James Clark. CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS This dissertation highlighted some of the major differences between the planktonic and biofilm phenotypes of the ATCC type strain, Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium LT2, and an ...
Stewart James Clark, 2008
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The Mulford Veterinary Bulletin ...
highly virulent for cattle, viz.: the races A, O, U, and Sp (the last is the culture from the gumma of a leper). The race Sp proved at the same time highly virulent for cattle, but slightly virulent for rabbits; the races Gg, Gs, MB, also highly virulent for  ...
‎1912
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases
pigs. The transformation was complete both as to morphology and acid production. The toxic action was entirely neutralized by diphtheria antitoxin. Nineteen strains of pseudodiphtheria bacillus proved virulent for goldfinches and chaffinches, ...
‎1960
7
Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Essentials of ...
Thus, Shigella is considered to be more virulent than Salmonella. In some cases, certain strains of a particular species are more virulent than others. For example, the "flesh-eating" strains of the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes are more ...
Paul G. Engelkirk, Janet L. Duben-Engelkirk, 2008
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The Philippine journal of science
Virulent blood was diluted with four times its volume of physiological salt solution and the mixture divided into four parts designated as a, b, c, and d. Part a was not filtered, b was passed through a Berkefeld filter V, c was filtered through a ...
Philippines. National Science Development Board, Philippines. Bureau of Science, Philippines. Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce, 1908
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Medical Record
To this question I prefer to let Dr. von Ruck give the reply himself, as he did when I proposed it, and I quote from his personal communication to me as follows: "It is true that complete immunity in the sense of uniform resistance to virulent ...
George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1913
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Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology
They differ especially in respect to virulence, and they found that the most virulent strains were those which were most delicate and sensitive in artificial cultivations, and that the less virulent ones were much less delicate, and could grow under ...
‎1906

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRULENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term virulent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cardinal Dolan slams Trump's 'virulent' immigration remarks
For Cardinal Dolan, the “virulent strain” of American nativism is not a thing of the past – it's alive, well and seeded in presidential candidate Donald Trump's ... «Catholic News Agency, Jul 15»
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Some vaccines support evolution of more-virulent viruses
"The challenge for the future is to identify other vaccines that also might allow more-virulent versions of a virus to survive and possibly to become even more ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Host response Sifting out virulent bacteria
To establish whether the adaptive immune system is responsible for the clearance of virulent C. rodentium, quasi-monoclonal mice (which lack specific ... «Nature.com, May 15»
4
Virulent avian flu strain detected in Indiana
Indiana's $1.23 billion poultry industry is on edge after a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza was found Friday in a backyard flock in Whitley County in ... «Indianapolis Star, May 15»
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A quarter of UK's wheat crop could be wiped out by virulent new …
A virulent new strain of fungus from the Himalayas threatens to wipe out up to a quarter of the wheat crop in some areas of the UK this harvest season, experts ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
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USDA reports virulent strain of avian flu in Kansas poultry
CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified the first infection of a virulent strain of avian flu in poultry in Kansas, confirming the virus has spread ... «Reuters, Mar 15»
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Over three million teenagers to be vaccinated against 'virulent' new …
More than three million teenagers are set to be offered immunisation against Meningococcal W (MenW) disease after a surge in meningitis cases caused by a ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
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Mutations have made Indian H1N1 strain more virulent, says study
The 2014 Indian H1N1 strain has undergone “important haemagglutinin (HA) mutations” that make it more easily transmissible and virulent in humans, notes a ... «The Hindu, Mar 15»
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Virulent Flu Strain in Europe Hits Economy
BERLIN—Europe's convalescent economy faces a new burden: an unusually virulent strain of flu that is shutting down schools, stopping commuter trains, and ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
10
Researchers may have caught HIV becoming more virulent
The researchers believe that the ultimate cause of CRF19_cpx's unusual virulence is that its protease gene, which comes from HIV subtype D, produces an ... «aidsmap, Feb 15»

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