Synonym: hurtful, injurious. Similar words: mysterious, delirious, serious, imperious, deteriorate, delete, various, curious. Meaning: [‚delɪ'tɪərɪəs] 
adj. harmful to living things.
adj. harmful to living things. 
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61, The recovered crystals contain impurities deleterious to use of the product, and these crystals are, therefore, redissolved and recrystallized to enhance purity.
62, This article supports the role of purge of recessive deleterious allele, our results show that under self-fertilization, deleterious recessive alleles can be purged more quickly by natural selection.
63, Except for polysulfone membranes, use of high chlorine levels is deleterious to the membrane.
64, In normal seedlings the deleterious recessive genes are not expressed.
65, The residual deleterious elements in steel lead to the products occurring red surface brittleness crack and temper brittleness, and lead to the hot strength of heat resistant steel decreasing.
66, Not so long ago, doctors gave dire warnings about masturbation, writing all manner of treatises on the vice of onanism and its physically deleterious effects.
67, It exciudes the deleterious substance, even if in heating or burning conditions.
More similar words: mysterious, delirious, serious, imperious, deteriorate, delete, various, curious, furious, delicious, spurious, glorious, uxorious, notorious, nefarious, interior, ulterior, anterior, exterior, perimeter, vicarious, laborious, furiously, curiously, penurious, cafeteria, salubrious, lugubrious, precarious, notoriously.