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Meanings of poison in English

Russian
токсикант
Portuguese
veneno
Spanish
veneno
Catalan
metzina
Wikidata

Substance that causes death, injury or harm to organs, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.

Related terms
токсикант
Portuguese
peçonha
Catalan
metzina

Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.

peçonha
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Examples for "poisons"
Examples for "poisons"
1
All the poisons we put into our food and water every day.
Pines
2
For example, labs can analyze the source of cyanide or other poisons.
Mindhunter
3
This fever is the direct result of poisons absorbed in the intestines.
How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"
4
It is knowledge that poisons us, events one would hesitate to imagine.
A Sport and a Pastime
5
Wine could conceal any number of advanced poisons-butwhich one was it?
Throne of Glass
Portuguese
envenenar
Catalan
enverinar
Spanish
envenenar

Add poison to.

envenenar

The 70's Biweekly (MCY-001055)

Usage of poison in English
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
2
The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
3
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
The Devil's Dictionary
4
The vitriolic power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
5
Certainly; but it is used in that case as a blood poison.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
6
We gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return.
The American Union Speaker
7
The disease matter is still in the system, plus the drug poison.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
8
The words of Fung Wah were poison in the ears of Llewellyn.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
9
The Government has announced new rules regulating the use of 1080 poison.
Radio NZ
10
You condemned me to the poison-bowl; you have not touched it yourself
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
11
In his fancy, office was poison; it killed-bodyand soul-physicallyand socially.
The Education of Henry Adams
12
The poison at that time had been duly packed in the herrings.
The American Senator
13
The most precious things in the world are also vivid with poison.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
14
The poison of indolence is in our blood-thetendency to centralized tyranny.
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
15
The poison of other states is the food of the new republic.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
16
The problem of the future is a question of the strongest poison-gas.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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