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poison

/poi-zuhn/US // ˈpɔɪ zən //UK // (ˈpɔɪzən) //

毒药,毒物,毒害,毒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
    • : something harmful or pernicious, as to happiness or well-being: the poison of slander.
    • : Slang. any variety of alcoholic liquor: Name your poison!
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to administer poison to.
    • : to kill or injure with or as if with poison.
    • : to put poison into or upon; saturate with poison: to poison food.
    • : to ruin, vitiate, or corrupt: Hatred had poisoned his mind.
    • : Chemistry. to destroy or diminish the activity of.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing poisoning; poisonous: a poison shrub.

Phrases

  • one man's meat is another man's poison

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Give him an insoluble problem and he’ll toss you a new way it can be decomposed, poisoned, or healed by a fungus.

  • Inhaling toxic vapors after a spill can poison marine mammals.

  • Any research that offers new ways to manage pests without poisons is very exciting, says Arianne Cease.

  • Mansoor, who had already been targeted by surveillance for many years, was suspicious and didn’t click the poisoned link.

  • When animals swallow the poison in low doses, it can cause a tingling or numbness.

  • Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”

  • And some members of the Lizard Squad are now claiming that they were never trying to poison the network.

  • Infernal, it can cause fires and explosions; toxic, it can debilitate, poison, and kill.

  • Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas.

  • “Either you poison yourselves or you take this which shoots,” the boss says.

  • The tobacco plant, as is well known, produces a virulent poison known as Nicotine.

  • They affirmed it was an antidote to all poison; that it expelled rheums, sour humours, and obstructions of all kinds.

  • He lived in a perpetual fear and danger of discovery; and discovery now was but another name, for poison—prison—death.

  • He carries a bamboo basket in which he has put a mixture containing a curious kind of poison.

  • Strange perhaps to say, the suggestion of the old dowager, like instilled poison, was making its way into her very veins.