poison
毒药,毒物,毒害,毒
Related Words
Definitions
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- : 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!
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- : 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.
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- : 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.