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comparative more virulent, superlative most virulent
Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous. examples
(figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious. quotations examples
More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent.
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
1963, Margery Allingham, “The Well House”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, page 105
(medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host. examples
(microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.