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noun
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
- We used a to kill the weeds.
- Something that harms a person or thing.
- Gossip is a malicious .
- (idiomatic) A drink; liquor.
Translations: - Dutch: gif , vergif , vergift
- French:
- French, poison
- German: Gift , Giftstoff
- Italian: veleno
- Spanish: veneno
verb
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
- : The assassin poisoned the king.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
- : That factory is poisoning the river.
- (transitive) To cause something to become much worse
- : Suspicion will their relationship.
- : He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
- (transitive) To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
- : She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
Translations: - Dutch: vergiftigen
- French: empoisonner(fr)
- German: vergiften
- Italian: avvelenare, intossicare
Etymology: From (term, puison, lag=fro) < (term, potio, lang=la). See also (term, potion) and (term, potable).
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