mortal-2
lethal ; mortal ; life threatening ; fatal ; deadly ; deathly .
The lethal effect of displacement of oxygen by an inert gas, such as nitrogen, on insect populations was investigated.
Individuals are mortal, but an organization can continue indefinitely.
The study also investigated whether persons who had consulted the book before committing suicide had life threatening medical illnesses.
Quite apart from the great toll of unasked questions, any hint of mutual antipathy between enquirer and librarian is fatal to the reference interview.
Sin City is a bustling, violent metropolis where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly.
As we all know, arsenic is deathly poisonous.
accidente mortal
fatal crash
fatal accident
Although teenagers accounted for only 5 percent of the total number of licensed drivers in the county, they were involved in 13 percent of the fatal crashes.
A man is dead and a woman may be charged after a fatal accident in Bethel, Ohio.
accidente mortal automovilístico
fatal car accident
One woman is dead and a man is in jail, after a fatal car accident late Friday night.
accidente mortal de carretera
fatal road accident
Driver error was responsible for 86% of all fatal road accidents in Ireland last year.
accidente mortal de coche
fatal car accident
One woman is dead and a man is in jail, after a fatal car accident late Friday night.
accidente mortal de tráfico
fatal car accident
fatal road accident
One woman is dead and a man is in jail, after a fatal car accident late Friday night.
Driver error was responsible for 86% of all fatal road accidents in Ireland last year.
asestar un golpe mortal
deal + a death blow
strike + a death blow
deal + a killer blow
deliver + a killer blow
deliver + a death blow
It has been said that Cutter in developing his method of alphabetic subject indexing 'dealt the death blow' to ninenteenth-century title-term indexing.
Moreover, military operations, whatever they may be, will not be able to strike a death blow to international terrorism, indicating that its high time that we probe the topic from a fresh standpoint.
Pakistan has vowed to target Taliban leaders and deal a killer blow to the Islamists.
Some of these remedies would undoubtedly have delivered a killer blow to the parasites in a horse's gut, but unfortunately harmed the horse in the process.
Lebanon is in such turmoil that war at the present time would deliver a death blow to the economy.
casi mortal
near-fatal
Much of the verve and shimmer of her lyrics can be connected to the near-fatal liver abscess she suffered in 1996.
dar un salto mortal [También escrito summersault] [También escrito somersault]
somersault
do + a somersault
summersault
They somersaulted and looped the loop.
She died after injuring herself while trying to do somersaults.
But when his rear wheel clipped the last bus he summersaulted through the air and broke his pelvis - ending his career.
echar una mirada mortal
look + daggers at
glare at
We stood in our driveway looking daggers at each other - the tension was like the air before lightning, even the cat ran for her life.
Wren glared at her for a second, then shut the door in her face.
enemigo mortal
mortal foe
Dead men have no friends; consequently, Israel must abandon its love affair with its putative, feckless friends and kill, once for all, its mortal foes.
enemistad mortal
blood feud
vendetta
Modernity & vendetta are contradictory social phenomena, & yet globalization brings to light the existence of blood feud in a modernized world.
Modernity & vendetta are contradictory social phenomena, & yet globalization brings to light the existence of blood feud in a modernized world.
golpe mortal
mortal blow
death blow
killer blow
This ultimately resulted in a Supreme Court decision that supported the defendants, striking what the music industry claimed would be a 'mortal blow' to its livelihood.
Another employee said the plant's closure would be the death blow for the entire region.
Three times she tracked him down and fought him, only to be thwarted as he somehow evaded her killer blow and disappeared into the night.
miedo mortal
mortal fear
As I have a mortal fear of dentists this would have put me in a cold sweat.
pecado mortal
mortal sin
deadly sin
According to Shakespeare's age, if she had agreed, she would have committed a mortal sin and been in danger of hell.
Two of the 'deadly sins' of a contemporary librarian would be a preference to work 'in silence', i.e. no contact with users and no advertising, and put on blinkers, i.e. no research and no analysis of the librarian's work.
peligro mortal
mortal danger
In the face of resistance, public ridicule, or even mortal danger, these women listened to their hearts and their unshakeable faith.
persona mortal
mortal
I think of someone like Zuckerberg to be more in the realm of Einstein than of mere mortals like most.
salto mortal [También escrito summersault] [También escrito somersault]
somersault
summersault
He carefully traces Churchill's twists and turns on this subject and concludes that his 'apparent somersaults were mere digressions and often only tactical in character'.
He ended up biting his lip and drawing some blood after doing a few summersaults and landing on his face.
salto mortal hacia atrás
backflip
Then he did several backflips and wailed aloud in his misery and woe, his yelps of distress quite filling the empyrean.
siete pecados mortales, los
seven deadly sins, the
The seven deadly sins are 'pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth/acedia'.
trampa mortal
death trap
The highways across the country have virtually become death traps as there are apparently no authorities to control reckless driving.
víctima mortal
fatality
A summary is then presented of the number and percentage of snowmobile fatalities in these three states during winter 2002-03.
