poison
IPA: pˈɔɪzʌn
noun
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- (informal) An intoxicating drink; a liquor. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison ?")
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
verb
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive, computing) To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit.
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Examples of "poison" in Sentences
- The well is poisoned.
- The plant is poisonous.
- Harry pours the poison in the bin.
- Food poisoning enervated the people.
- That is the fruit of the poison tree.
- The plant is not poisonous to the touch.
- The poison is in the roots of the plant.
- It is the antidote to the poison of delusion.
- It really is the opposite of poisoning the well.
- It then bites the prey to inject it with poison.
- As I understand it the "poison" is essentially non-toxic for us.
- I had been asking for a poison, but what I called a poison they called a trap or a coup poudre.
- This turned out to be what we call a poison pen, what the intelligence people call a poison pen.
- Ritz said the Conservative government has the right to rewrite the legislation despite what he called a "poison pill" clause that requires that western farmer be consulted first.
- My mother and Betty would drink coffee and discuss their loveless marriages while Emily and I picked buckets of sticky red berries off a backyard bush and took part in what we called a poison fight.
- He recoiled from them more and more, and the solitude in which he lived among his books filled him with a black melancholy, which he describes as a poison, corroding the life of body and soul alike.
- See stäf. âter-teár, m., _poisonous drop_: dat.pl. îren âter-teárum fâh (steel which is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), 1460. âttor, st. n., _poison_, here of the poison of the dragon's bite: nom.,
- You learn very soon that poison medicines are kept apart from the others, and quickly associate the _poison_ label with danger to patients, necessity of locking safely away and hiding the key from any but those responsible for the care of the sick.