lethal

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The researchers ' next step was to make this peptide lethal by attaching it to another peptide that promoted cell suicide.

Modifies a noun

• injection: They are due to be killed by lethal injection in a few weeks time.
• dose: The lethal dose is some 40,000 times the average dose for a high; there have been no cannabis deaths.
• cocktail: The focus of the concern is on two of the chemicals that make up the lethal cocktail used for execution in most states.
• toxin: Kahn found high levels of lethal toxins in Frost's fatty tissue.
• weapon: The US army has put a lethal weapon into the hands of its enemies.
• poison: Like the terrain around the Upas tree No Man's Land was scourged, swept incessantly by fire and lethal poisons.

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: The aim is to prevent potentially lethal weapons falling into the hands of children.
• possibly: It also concentrates heat in one area with possibly lethal consequences for the pulp.
• sometimes: This is the best way to catch malaria, a sometimes lethal disease which has not ceased to be omnipresent in Ivory Coast.
• highly: Unbeknownst to either of them, a killer had dropped a highly lethal addition into Harriet's cold drink.
• particularly: ABERDEEN 19 Jul 2006 The roundabouts in Aberdeen are particularly lethal today, be safe Update - 19 Jul 2006 What!
• pretty: It's a pretty lethal weapon in inexperienced hands.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: In the wrong hands these can also prove lethal.
• remain: The standoff between India and Pakistan over who owns the mountainous Kashmir region remains lethal.
• become: Should it aggravate a disorder, it becomes lethal.
• look: He looks lethal whenever he has the ball at the moment.
• turn: At the end of that adaptation period, it turns lethal.

Preposition: in

• hand: In the past distress flares, which can be lethal in the wrong hands, have been taken.

Preposition: of

• weapon: Wrong spiritual teaching, false religion is the most lethal of all terrorist weapons.