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What does virulent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Highly infectious, malignant, or deadly.
  2. Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.
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In a new study, researchers show that special viruses are the culprits behind the emergence of virulent select new bacterial strains.
Some outbreaks had been reported in Yorkshire and so virulent was the disease that its arrival in Craven was seen as inevitable.
Balancing royalism with the region's often virulent strain of fundamentalism has never been easy.
Many of today's young, virulent anticapitalists experienced their social awakenings on campuses, in fields other than economics.
As a virulent strain of the measles spreads among the students, the town doctor puts Plumfield under quarantine.
More harmful to Wagner's reputation over the long term has been his virulent, lamebrained, and lifelong anti-Semitism.

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