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Thesaurus: pernicious

Quick; swift (to burn).

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Definitions

  1. a. Quick; swift (to burn).
  2. a. Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
  3. adj. exceedingly harmful
  4. adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  5. j:100 s exceedingly harmful s working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way