Poison

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A substance that causes injury, illness, or death, especially by chemical means.
  • n. Something destructive or fatal.
  • n. Chemistry & Physics A substance that inhibits another substance or a reaction: a catalyst poison.
  • v. To kill or harm with poison.
  • v. To put poison on or into: poisoning arrows; poisoned the drink.
  • v. To pollute: Noxious fumes poison the air. See Synonyms at contaminate.
  • v. To have a harmful influence on; corrupt: Jealousy poisoned their friendship.
  • v. Chemistry & Physics To inhibit (a substance or reaction).
  • adj. Poisonous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
  • n. Something that harms a person or thing.
  • n. A drink; liquor.
  • v. To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
  • v. To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
  • v. To cause something to become much worse
  • v. To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it
  • n. That which taints or destroys moral purity or health
  • v. To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison
  • v. To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
  • v. To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate
  • verb-intransitive. To act as, or convey, a poison.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A drink; a draught; a potion.
  • n. Any substance which, introduced into the living organism directly, tends to destroy the life or impair the health of that organism.
  • n. Hence, that which taints or destroys moral purity or health or comfort: as, the poison of evil example.
  • To infect with poison; put poison into or upon; add poison to: as, to poison an arrow.
  • To administer poison to; attack, injure, or kill by poison.
  • To taint; mar; impair; vitiate; corrupt.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. add poison to
  • v. administer poison to
  • n. anything that harms or destroys
  • v. kill with poison
  • n. any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
  • v. kill by its poison
  • v. spoil as if by poison
  • Verb Form
    poisoned    poisoning    poisons   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    destructiveness    kill    profane    demoralise    misdirect    deprave    vitiate   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bane    venom    malignity    pest    virus    taint    corrupt    vitiate    toxic    venomous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disease    drug    gas    fever    infection    magic    injury    salt    food    blood