Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The vital body organs.
- noun plural The parts essential to continued functioning, as of a system.
- noun plural Informal Vital signs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The viscera necessary for vital processes; those interior parts or organs which are essential to life, as the brain, heart, lungs, and stomach: a vague general term.
- The part of any complex whole that is essential to its life or existence, or to a sound state: as, corruption of manners preys upon the vitals of a state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
- noun plural Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun plurale tantum Those
organs of thebody that areessential forlife . - noun plurale tantum, figuratively Those parts of a
system without which it cannotfunction . - noun medicine, plurale tantum
vital signs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bodily organ that is essential for life
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Examples
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The shot placement and the ability of the firearm and shooter to put it in the vitals is the most important factor over anyone's top ten list.
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The shot placement and the ability of the firearm and shooter to put it in the vitals is the most important factor over anyone's top ten list.
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As someone else said, a clean shot to the vitals is the most merciful death a hunted animal will face.
David E. 2005
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As someone else said, a clean shot to the vitals is the most merciful death a hunted animal will face.
David E. 2005
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I don't know if you can guarantee that every deer shot in the vitals is going to go down.
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But I understand where you coming from, ground up vitals is death sooner or later.
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But I understand where you coming from, ground up vitals is death sooner or later.
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I don't know if you can guarantee that every deer shot in the vitals is going to go down.
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But lit she fire in vitals mine still flaring fierce and high,
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But from 1685 to 1688 this man was absolute master of England and her colonies; and the disease which he bred in English vitals was hardly cured even by the sharp medicine of the Boyne.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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