Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "dodelik" is iets wat in staat is om dood te veroorsaak of in staat is om groot skade of vernietiging te veroorsaak. Dit kan ook verwys na iets wat uiters gevaarlik of skadelik is.
And, in this town, where you could get a lethal injection standing on the wrong street corner, why worry?
There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face.
Elijah materialised in front of her, holding a long, lethal halberd.
Sun glinted down the sharpened steel as he easily parried another attack, his blade quickly blocking and deflecting the lethal steel.
The gaolers had a stark sense of humour and placed her in the rooms occupied by her mother before her lethal appointment with the axe.
In a split second, he rendered the red capped man unconscious with a lethal blow to the neck.
There was something else, something lethal, in the dark tower now.
Harry recalled the radio, if anyone posed a threat to the police station or town hall then lethal force would be used.
I did not myself know whether our lethal weapons would avail us anything.
A devastating man made virus has been unleashed on the world, a virus so lethal that it rapidly turns everyone it infects into rabid, blood crazed killers.
