Adjective:

हानि पहुंचानेवाला, नुक़सान पहुंचानेवाला, धातक, विषैला, हानिकारक,

deleterious's Usage Examples:

Having a low vitamin D level can be deleterious to your health.

The smoke-laden atmosphere has been found not infrequently to exercise a deleterious effect upon the stonework of important buildings; and through the same cause the appearance of London as a whole is by some condemned as sombre.

The subsoil not unfrequently contains materials which are deleterious to the growth of crops, and roots descending into it may absorb and convey these poisonous substances to other parts of the plant or be themselves damaged by contact with them.

By a combination of these morbid predispositions with the action of deleterious influences from without all diseases were produced.

When there is an injurious preponderance of metallic oxides or other deleterious substances, the roots of trees would be affected by them, and they must therefore be removed.

Therefore it will not be out of place to add here a chapter on snake poison and on the best means (ineffectual though they be in numerous cases) of counteracting its deleterious effects.

The deleterious influence of high bloodpressure has engaged the attention of physicians and pathologists in later years, and the conclusion arrived at is, that although it may arise from accidental causes, such as malcomposition of the blood, yet that in many instances it is a hereditary or family defect, and is bound up with the tendency to gout and cirrhotic degeneration of the kidney.

The vessels are only temporary channels by which is brought forward the food supply that is needed by the advancing army if it is suc-, cessfully to carry on its function; they probably also drain off the deleterious fluid substances formed by the cellular disintegration that has taken place in the part.

The effects of morphine are much more deleterious than those of opiumsmoking.

A few crops, such as mustard, seem deleterious to them.

Synonyms:

hurtful, injurious, harmful,

Antonyms:

benign, constructive, inoffensive, harmless,