lethal agent

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   an agent capable of causing death

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Questions about lethal agent

What does lethal agent mean?

lethal agent means "an agent capable of causing death".

Is lethal agent a common word?

lethal agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.