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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-baneful-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="baneful" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-baneful-a-01615857-s" synset="oewn-01615857-s" dc:identifier="baneful%5:00:00:noxious:00"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-deadly-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="deadly" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation>ˈdɛd.li</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="deadlier"/>
      <Form writtenForm="deadliest"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-deadly-a-01615857-s" synset="oewn-01615857-s" dc:identifier="deadly%5:00:00:noxious:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-deadliness-n-04798291-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-pernicious-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="pernicious" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation variety="GB">pəˈnɪʃəs</Pronunciation>
        <Pronunciation variety="US">pɚˈnɪʃəs</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-pernicious-a-01615857-s" synset="oewn-01615857-s" dc:identifier="pernicious%5:00:00:noxious:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-perniciousness-n-04798152-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-pestiferous-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="pestiferous" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation variety="CA">ˌpɛsˈtɪfəɹəs</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-pestiferous-a-01430206-s" synset="oewn-01430206-s" dc:identifier="pestiferous%5:00:00:epidemic:00"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-pestilent-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="pestilent" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation>ˈpɛstələnt</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-pestilent-a-01430206-s" synset="oewn-01430206-s" dc:identifier="pestilent%5:00:00:epidemic:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-pestilence-n-14099961-n"/>
      </Sense>
      <Sense id="oewn-pestilent-a-01615857-s" synset="oewn-01615857-s" dc:identifier="pestilent%5:00:00:noxious:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-pestilence-n-05701634-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-pestilential-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="pestilential" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-pestilential-a-01430206-s" synset="oewn-01430206-s" dc:identifier="pestilential%5:00:00:epidemic:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-pestilence-n-14099961-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-plaguey-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="plaguey" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-plaguey-a-01430206-s" synset="oewn-01430206-s" dc:identifier="plaguey%5:00:00:epidemic:00">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-plague-n-14099961-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-01430206-s" ili="i7794" partOfSpeech="s" members="oewn-pestilent-a oewn-pestilential-a oewn-pestiferous-a oewn-plaguey-a" lexfile="adj.all">
      <Definition language="en">likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-01429248-a"/>
      <Example language="en" dc:source="Jonathan Swift">a pestilential malignancy in the air</Example>
      <Example language="en">plaguey fevers</Example>
    </Synset>
    <Synset id="oewn-01615857-s" ili="i8821" partOfSpeech="s" members="oewn-baneful-a oewn-deadly-a oewn-pernicious-a oewn-pestilent-a" lexfile="adj.all">
      <Definition language="en">exceedingly harmful</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-01615595-a"/>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>