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Meanings of poisons in English
Substance that causes death, injury or harm to organs, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.
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Usage of poisons in English
1
All the poisons we put into our food and water every day.
2
For example, labs can analyze the source of cyanide or other poisons.
3
This fever is the direct result of poisons absorbed in the intestines.
4
It is knowledge that poisons us, events one would hesitate to imagine.
5
Wine could conceal any number of advanced poisons-butwhich one was it?
6
Let any man come forward and testify that we have procured poisons.
7
Of course, it could be laced with all sorts of deadly poisons.
8
The poisons of the tobacco and whiskey were doing their fatal work.
9
It is the root from which they make the poisons for arrow-heads.
10
Behold him at thirty like old Mithridates; poisons are his familiar friends.
11
Sainte Croix, who had been in Italy, was a dabbler in poisons.
12
It stops the power of poisons and is redoubted by evil spirits.
13
It poisons the springs at the very source-one'sfaith in his fellows.
14
Not with the plagues and poisons in the air, water, and soil.
15
He poisons his world with reason and has suffered terribly for it.
16
Always keep poisons well labeled and out of the way of children.
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