Virulence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VIRULENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being virulent, also VIRULENCY
• the severity or harmfulness of a disease or poison
• bitter hostility; rancour
• quality of being virulent
• Alt. of Virulency
• extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
• extreme hostility
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being virulent; as; extreme bitterness or malignity of temper; rancor; malignancy, venomousness; the relative capacity of a pathogen to overcome body defenses

Words related to VIRULENCE

virulences15 virulency17

Words that contain VIRULENCE

virulences15 hypervirulence27 hypervirulences28

How to use VIRULENCE in a sentence

• We forget the exceeding difficulties with which he had to contend, and the virulence of his enemies.
• Its expression but not its virulence was temporarily checked by wholesome fear.
• The words of a man trying to supply the place of strength by virulence.
• I, however, can answer your question whether party spirit is conducted with such virulence here as in America.
• The exercise of her tongue not being hindered, she wagged against him with all the virulence of malice.
• Well, says she, has nature provided that such virulence should be disabled by folly, and such cruelty be restrained by impotence.
• At that time motion pictures had not attained their present virulence.
• It occurs at uncertain intervals of time with extraordinary virulence, and then utterly destroys the crops.
• The old contest between emperor and pope threatened to be opened again with all its former virulence.
• A pestilence broke out of such frightful virulence that it appeared indeed as if man was to be swept from the earth.
• A similar state of things is found in some races which under certain definite conditions lose their colour or their virulence.
• Such an incident, as inevitable as the measles, sometimes, like that mild malady, leaves traces out of all proportion to its actual virulence.
• But as it increased in violence and virulence she had more than once lost her temper.
• He remained for thirty-five days in charge of his patient, during which time the distemper lost its virulence and the patient gained flesh.
• By degrees the discharge increases in quantity and virulence, extending backward until it reaches the sensitive womb.
• And these mosquitoes from the lagoon were of surpassing virulence.
• Robert Harley, who had hitherto opposed the measures of the court with equal virulence and ability.
• The very names by which each party denominated its antagonist, discover the virulence and rancor which prevailed.
• A twelvemonth later it was raging in London, but as the weather grew colder its virulence abated, allowing of the resumption of the lord mayor’s feast.
• This swamp is famous throughout the valley for the immense size and virulence of the mosquitoes which breed in it.
• He had been criticised from the beginning in that part of the country with a severity that often approached virulence.
• The virulence of her brother, and the spite of her sister, are entirely owing to me.
• Nor, in spite of the virulence of his method, do his portraits ever sink to the level of caricatures.
• In the year 1789 they were visited by a disorder which raged among them with all the appearance and virulence of the small-pox.
• But when he finally came out and she looked down upon him she saw virulence in his sunken eyes and she wondered if he could be trusted to hold the ladder safely.
• The curtain lecture that followed was of unusual virulence, and in the midst of it he fell asleep.
• But surely we shall have learned our lesson badly if the old strife of Tory and Liberal is to be revived in all its former virulence and sterility.
• Wave on wave, each with increasing virulence, is dashing this new religion of whiteness on the shores of our time.
• In the latter the debates assumed a virulence which is illustrated by the speeches on the Sumner assault.

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