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hypervirulent

adj

Etymology

From hyper- + virulent.

  1. derived from virulent
  2. derived from *wisós✻ — “poison; slime; fluidity”
  3. derived from vīrulentus — “poisonous”
  4. inherited from virulent — “leaking or seeping pus, purulent; (of putrefaction) extremely severe (sense uncertain)”
  5. prefixed as hypervirulent — “hyper + virulent”

Definitions

  1. Extremely virulent.

    • “But in the past few years the bugs have become hypervirulent, more severe and now it’s a global threat.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypervirulent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA