Usually means: Extremely severe or harmful in nature.
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  1. virulent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. virulent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. virulent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. virulent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. virulent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Virulent, virulent: Wordnik
  7. virulent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. virulent: Wiktionary
  9. virulent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. virulent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. virulent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. virulent: Dictionary.com
  13. virulent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. virulent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Virulent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Virulent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. virulent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. virulent: Rhymezone
  19. Virulent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. virulent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. virulent: Free Dictionary
  22. virulent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. virulent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. virulent: Legal dictionary

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  1. virulent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virulent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. virulent: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. virulent: Medical dictionary
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  6. Virulent: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. Virulent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See virulently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
adjective:  (figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
adjective:  (medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
adjective:  (microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.

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