life-threatening
/ˈlʌifˌθrɛt(ə)nɪŋ
/adjective
(Especially of an illness or injury) potentially fatal: cancer is not the only life-threatening condition...
- And it's not just those suffering from life-threatening illness who are offered such help.
- The basic fact may nowhere be as true as when we are tested by a life-threatening illness.
- The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung.
- Achilles heel
- Achilles tendon
- achime
- achimenes
- Achinese
- achiness
- aching
- achingly
- a chink in someone's armour
- achiote
- a chip off the old block
- a chip on one's shoulder
- achiral
- achirality
- achkan
- achlamydate
- achlamydeous
- achlorhydria
- achlorhydric
- achlorophyllous
- achmatite
- Acholi
- acholia
- acholic
- acholuria