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murderous
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as in oppressive
difficult to endure
the murderous heat of the desert
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as in difficult
requiring considerable physical or mental effort
those exams were murderous
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as in lethal
likely to cause or capable of causing death
braved murderous machine-gun fire to capture the hill from the enemy
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“Murderous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderous. Accessed 9 Dec. 2022.
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