Word Finder - poisoned

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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.

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(of a living thing) Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.

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(of food or drink) Containing poison.

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(of a pawn) Such that its capture will lessen the capturing player's chance of winning.

Where's this poisoned tea?

They are great hunters and use small poisoned arrows to bring down their game.

According to others, he was poisoned by his physicians at the instigation of his son.

In the later form of the story Philoctetes was the friend and armour-bearer of Heracles, who presented him with his bow and poisoned arrows as a reward for kindling the fire on Mt Oeta, on which the hero immolated himself.

He was poisoned, and then strangled by a wrestler named Narcissus, on the 31st of December 192.

He was poisoned by his son Romanus in 959.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either the wife of Louis or the mother of the king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

He married Maud, heiress of Hugh, earl of Chester, and his son John inherited both earldoms. The son married Helen, daughter of Llewelyn, prince of Wales, by whom he was poisoned in 1237, dying without issue.

Killis, who caused him, it is said, to be poisoned.

The only victim of this plot was Ali, who died at Kufa in 661, of the wound inflicted by a poisoned weapon.

I.m also making a special poisoned batch to give back to the demons.

Over 100 persons fell ill after eating the poisoned beef.

After John Bell died, the witch claimed she had poisoned him.

They can be killed by spreading about cabbage leaves, &c., poisoned with Paris green.

The remaining portions of the pileus are then lightly pressed, as well as the central slices, between bibulous paper until dry, and the whole is then "poisoned," and gummed on a sheet of paper in such a manner as to show the under surface of the one and the upper surface of the other half of the pileus on the same sheet.

There appears, however, to be no truth in the report that Bayezid succeeded in bribing the pope to have Jem poisoned.

Three years later she was in the East with Germanicus, who died at Antioch in 19, poisoned, it was said, by order of Cn.

The power of this Idumaean family provoked popular risings and Antipater was poisoned.

The probability is that Abdarrahman was ill when returning from the frontier, that Moawiya sent him his own medical man, the Christian doctor Ibn Othal, and that the rumour arose that the doctor had poisoned him.

Some attribute his death to an accident met with in hunting; others believe him to have been poisoned.

It is said that Europeans who violated the prohibition have been poisoned.

At a later period he talked of "dying of rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole"; for some time, however, he was buoyed up by feeble hopes of a restoration to England.

A rumour went about that he had been poisoned by the cardinal Baldassare Cossa, impatient to be his successor, who succeeded him in fact under the name of John XXIII.

As late as the year 1900 Mr Albert Millican, while collecting orchids on the Opon river, a tributary of the Magdalena between Bogota and the Caribbean coast, was attacked by hostile Indians, and one of his companions was killed by a poisoned arrow.

The old tolbooth, in which William Maitland of Lethington, Queen Mary's secretary, poisoned himself in 1573, to avoid execution for adhering to Mary's cause, was demolished in 1819.

The execution of Watt gave to this trial a note of tragedy which was absent from that of certain members of the Corresponding Society, accused of conspiring to murder the king by means of a poisoned arrow shot from an air-gun.

In 43 B.C. Antipater was poisoned at the instigation of one Malichus, who was perhaps a Jewish patriot animated by hatred of the Herods and their Roman patrons.

She endeavoured to prevent the alliance between King Guntram and Childebert, which was cemented by the pact of Andelot; and made several attempts to assassinate Childebert by sending against him hired bravoes armed with poisoned scramasaxes (heavy single-edged knives).

Their chief weapons are poisoned arrows.

But many accidents have resulted from the arsenic being absorbed, and the patient thereby poisoned.

There followed the wholesale massacre of St Bartholomews St BarEve, in Paris and in the provinces; a natural con- thofomew, sequence of public and private hatreds which had August poisoned the entire social organism.

But Mozaffar lasted for a short time, and then died, poisoned, as it was said, by his brother Abdurrahman, called Sanchol, the son of Mansur by one of the Christian ladies whom he extorted for his harem from the fears of the Christian princes.

Some (e.g. star anise) have poisoned babies.

Later, when wounded by a poisoned arrow, Paris sought Oenone's aid but he died before she could give it.

Is the council tax going to be her poisoned chalice?

Bond is knocked out by a poisoned dart to the neck.

And because the church is not discerning, it is being poisoned with a deadly chemical that looks like living water.

Being handed the CEO job at the world's largest media company during an unprecedented advertising downturn might appear to be a poisoned chalice.

One of the earliest uses of biological weapons occurred in the 6th century BC when the Assyrians poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot.

He married Eurydice, who was fatally poisoned by a snake bite.

In the mean time we all breathe poisoned air and children grow flabby under house arrest.

As they both stand to share their uncle's fortune, Tony wonders if the bottle's poisoned.

They are then thought to have been poisoned by toxic fumes.

In May a young golden eagle whose nest was protected round-the-clock by volunteers became one of the victims when it was found poisoned.

After repeated molesting of the miller's wife and daughter, the miller's wife and daughter, the miller poisoned them.

This dispute poisoned his relationship with the then unknown newton, as the secretary repeatedly misrepresented hooke to newton.

That animals are deliberately poisoned, surgically mutilated, deprived of food and water is bad enough.

Another account relates how he poisoned himself by eating deadly nightshade, other less specific reports simply say that he died from poisoning.

Some may be poisoned; the beta amyloid peptide is a strong suspect.

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