Word Finder - poison

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A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.

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We used a poison to kill the weeds.

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Something that harms a person or thing.

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Gossip is a malicious poison.

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A drink; liquor.

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— I'll have a glass of whisky.

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Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.

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To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).

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The assassin poisoned the king.

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To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.

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That factory is poisoning the river.

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To cause to become much worse.

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He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.

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To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.

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She's poisoned him against all his old friends.

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To inhibit the catalytic activity of.

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To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit.

Jonny was safe, even if she hadn't been able to wipe away all traces of the poison in his blood.

I didn't even see any poison ivy today.

He dies by poison soon afterwards.

Its words are poison but its magic protects my city.

She could poison your tea.

Are you sure it's poison ivy?

The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee.

That's not poison ivy.

Desault died suddenly, not without suspicion of poison, on the 1st of June, and it was some days before doctors Pelletan and Dumangin were called.

He continued his intrigues against the English government, and in 1598 he was charged with complicity in a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth.

There followed a long conflict, with alternations of success and defeat, which was not terminated till the death of the prince of Viana, perhaps by poison given him by his stepmother, in 1461.

Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.

But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Hausmann in 1813, alludes to the arsenic and iron present (cfipµ.aKov, poison, and aLo pos, iron).

There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if he had a design to poison you.

The bite, for example, of large species of the family Aviculariidae, sometimes called Mygales, and sometimes, but erroneously, known as tarantulas, species which have fangs half an inch long and as sharp as needles and a considerable quantity of poison, may be very painful, though seldom serious provided the health of the patient be good.

Probably all of them secrete an active poison by the aid of their glands, but the effects of these substances are not readily perceptible.

Where tetanus has become established, antibodies are used to work against the poison (known as tetanus antitoxins ).

No, it's sort of like a poison chalice.

After two clumsy attempts had been made to poison him at Perez's table, he was killed by bravos on the night of Easter Monday, the 31st of March 1578.

Like all the precious stones, the diamond was credited with many marvellous virtues; among others the power of averting insanity, and of rendering poison harmless; and in the middle ' Diamonds are invariably weighed in carats and in z, 4, a, 1, s, of a carat.

Blackstone (1723-1780), to be sure, a hundred years later, says that, "if a woman is quick with child, and by poison or otherwise killeth it in her womb, or if any one beat her, whereby the child dieth in her body, and she is delivered of a dead child, this, though not murder, was, by the ancient law, homicide or manslaughter."

The English law on the subject is now governed by the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which makes the attempting to cause miscarriage by administering poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully using any instrument equally a felony, whether the woman be, or be not, with child.

If a woman administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means to procure her own miscarriage, she is guilty of felony.

In large quantities it is a poison, but in smaller quantities it acts as a stimulant.

It is a striking example of the way in which such legends grow, that it is only the latest of these authorities, Hsiian Tsang, who says that, though ostensibly approaching the Buddha with a view to reconciliation, Devadatta had concealed poison in his nail with the object of murdering the Buddha.

Having removed Drusus (the son of Tiberius) by poison, he persuaded the emperor to retire to the island of Capreae.

His death was variously ascribed "to despair, to poison, and to the divine justice."

After some successes, the pretender was ultimately cornered at the castle of Sanam near Kish, and took poison together with all the members of his family.

The unfortunate man was brought by the caliph himself to Bagdad, and there died, apparently by poison.

He died six months after, by poison, it is said.

The day after Barkiyaroq's triumphant entry into Bagdad, Muharram 487 (February 1094), he died suddenly, apparently by poison.

He carried poison with him, but never used it.

With the king's full cognisance, accordingly, Perez, after several unsuccessful attempts to poison Escovedo, succeeded in procuring his assassination in a street of Madrid on the 31st of March 1578.

In fact dissemination seems to have taken place, as usual, by the conversion of one house after another into a focus of disease, a process favoured by the fatal custom of shutting up infected houses with all their inmates, which was not only almost equivalent to a sentence of death on all therein, but caused a dangerous concentration of the poison.

How the poison passes from one person to another is less clear.

It is therefore easily intelligible that they may play an important part in multiplying and fixing the poison on a locality.

In the former the poison clearly fastens on the locality, and gradually increases its hold.

Now the poison is contained, as we have already seen, in the discharges from patients, and in such infected localities the standing conditions and the habits of the people combine to retain the discharges on the premises.

The floors, mostly of mud covered with dung, are fouled with spittle, vomit, and urine, and, being seldom or never cleaned out, foster a gradual accumulation of poison, to which infected rats and the concealment of illness contribute.

The urine is nevertheless small in amount and contains albumen and blood owing to the local inflammation produced in the kidney by the passage of the poison through that organ.

The treatment is far from satisfactory, and consists in keeping up the strength and diluting the poison in the blood and in the urine by the administration of bland fluids, such as soda-water, milk and plain water, in quantities as large as possible.

In 62 Burrus died, it was said by poison, and Seneca retired from the unequal contest.

Sir George Wakeman, the queen's physician, was accused of purposing to poison the king, and the queen was named as being concerned in the plot.

Karl Schwarz happily remarks that, as the English apologists of the 18th century were themselves infected with the poison of the deists whom they end eavoured to refute, so Tholuck absorbed some of the heresies of the rationalists whom he tried to overthrow.

That which is taboo, for instance, the person of the king, or woman's blood, is poison or medicine according as it is manipulated, being inherently just n potentiality for wonder-working in any direction.

Her sudden death from dysentery, shortly after the birth of her fourth child, was accordingly attributed to poison.

There appears to be little doubt that the active principle in this beverage is a poison of an alkaloidal nature.

This prince, who had slain an elder brother, died by poison (1485), after a reign of seven years.

Although this result is best obtained when the venom and serum are mixed in a glass before injection, yet if they be injected at the same time in different parts of the body the animal will still be protected and the poison will not produce its usual deadly results.