poison

IPA: pˈɔɪzʌn

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.

(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.

Examples of "poison" in Sentences

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.