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Meanings of poison in английском
Substance that causes death, injury or harm to organs, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.
Related terms
Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.
Usage of poison in английском
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
2
The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
3
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
4
The vitriolic power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
5
Certainly; but it is used in that case as a blood poison.
6
We gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return.
7
The disease matter is still in the system, plus the drug poison.
8
The words of Fung Wah were poison in the ears of Llewellyn.
9
The Government has announced new rules regulating the use of 1080 poison.
10
You condemned me to the poison-bowl; you have not touched it yourself
11
In his fancy, office was poison; it killed-bodyand soul-physicallyand socially.
12
The poison at that time had been duly packed in the herrings.
13
The most precious things in the world are also vivid with poison.
14
The poison of indolence is in our blood-thetendency to centralized tyranny.
15
The poison of other states is the food of the new republic.
16
The problem of the future is a question of the strongest poison-gas.
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