virulent form

collocation in English

meaningsofvirulentandform

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virulent
adjective
uk
/ˈvɪr.ə.lənt/
us
/ˈvɪr.jə.lənt/
A virulent disease or poison is dangerous and spreads or affects people ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/
us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofvirulentandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They nevertheless continued to lurk as 'costs' of state formation and re-emerged invirulentformin the changed circumstances of the 1930s.
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This evidence suggests that although vaccine strains can revert wholly or partially to avirulentform, they do not cause epidemics of poliomyelitis.
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Again, this leaves us with the problem of percentages, but in a lessvirulentform.
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Rivalry represents avirulentformof contentious politics.
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That is, the fetuses exposed during their 6th month of gestation to an exceptionallyvirulentformof influenza were at higher risk for developing schizophrenia.
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After all, inflation is the mostvirulentformof dry rot attacking the fabric of our great buildings.
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It has fought off carpetbaggers before, only to find them returning like a particularlyvirulentformof seasonal blight.
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Are we to introduce a morevirulentformof myxomatosis?
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I found she was suffering from an exceedinglyvirulentformof this loathsome disease.
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That provides only a temporary respite before the problem returns in a greater and morevirulentform.
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Surely the mostvirulentformof anti-social behavour is the failure to pay rent.
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The source of infection was meat pies, contaminated with avirulentformof salmonella.
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At about this time, in addition to this disease, he contracted avirulentformof pneumonia.
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Goats had much the mostvirulentformof the disease but, luckily, not in this country.
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I ask what more could have been done to harass and hamper the agricultural interests if the mostvirulentformof cattle disease had been raging?
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The fact that the knowledge of them is only now surfacing does not make them a new feature—the attacks are simply emerging in a morevirulentform.
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I believe that it is in the construction industry, and perhaps in the clothing industry, that many of the problems have arisen in their mostvirulentform.
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This led to a confirmed diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis, a mostvirulentformof the disease.
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The doctor visited a patient who had just suddenly come down with avirulentform.
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