Their functionality is minimal at best, and any strain on them can kill you.

She knew the strain was killing her, and didn't care.

That strain of flu could kill overnight; I saw it happen more than once.

Nonlytic strains kill by blocking the basic processes a cell needs to live.

Our dad worked the docks till the strain of it killed him.

Just when all seems lost, the darkness exits her body, and the physical strain kills Selene.

A new strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis has killed 13 inmates and a guard this year in the state prison system.

The strain itself killed one person and hospitalized 13.

I think the strain will kill Henley before the war.

The drug-resistant strains killed two health care workers and were suspected in the deaths of four others.