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life-threatening

adjective as in very dangerous

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There has been particular concern among critics of the bill about how people who have been left vulnerable by life-threatening illness will be safeguarded.

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Carolyn Challis: "I got through two life-threatening rounds of cancer only to be given another life-threatening illness"

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Zada "had no issues with putting people in life-threatening situations as long as he got paid", said Mr Clarke.

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The woman who was injured, who is in her 40s, was taken to hospital but Nottinghamshire Police said her injuries were "not life-threatening".

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Mr O'Hara, who contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease which caused horrific injuries, previously told Newcastle Crown Court he had become a "shell" of himself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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