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pernicious
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Meaning of
'pernicious'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Pernicious
[
a.
]
- Quick; swift (to burn).
- Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Meaning of 'pernicious' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 .
pernicious
[
s
]
Meaning (1):
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Example in sentence:
a subtle poison;
glaucoma is an insidious disease
Nearby Words:
per
per-
peract
peracute
peradventure
peraeopod
peragrate
peragration
perambulate
perambulated
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