gets ones feet wet (verb) break the ice: prepare the way
Sinonime: baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty,
bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic,
cruel,
dangerous, death-dealing, deathly,
deleterious, destroying,
destructive,
fatal,
grim,
harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine,
killing,
lethal,
malignant,
mortal, mortiferous, murderous,
noxious,
pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential,
poisonous,
ruthless,
savage, slaying, suicidal,
toxic,
unrelenting, venomous,
violent,
virulentAntonime: animating, energizing,
harmless, healthful,
healthy,
invigorating,
wholesome