Poison

Noun

 * 1) A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
 * We used a poison to kill the weeds.
 * 1) Something that harms a person or thing.
 * Gossip is a malicious poison.
 * 1) A drink; liquor.

Synonyms

 * contaminant, pollutant, toxin, venom, atter

Derived terms

 * poison gas
 * poison hemlock
 * poison ivy
 * poison oak
 * poison-pen letter


 * poison pill
 * poison sumac
 * poisoner
 * poisoning
 * poisonous


 * poisonwood
 * rat poison
 * what's your poison

Verb

 * 1)  To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
 * The assassin poisoned the king.
 * 1)  To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
 * That factory is poisoning the river.
 * 1)  To cause something to become much worse
 * Suspicion will poison their relationship.
 * He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
 * 1)  To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
 * She's poisoned him against all his old friends.

Synonyms

 * contaminate, pollute, taint
 * corrupt, taint

Derived terms

 * lead poisoning


 * radiation poisoning

Adjectives for Poison
bottom; virulent; simmering; consuming; offensive; infusing; unseasonable; vanquished; occidental; insidious; intoxicating; infidel; rank; putrefactive; deadly; corrosive; inorganic; delicious; innocuous; slow-working.

Verbs for Poison
absorb—; antidote—; assimilate—; control —; counteract—; distil—; eliminate—; excrete—; exude—; impregnate with—; infect with—; inject—; neutralize—; reek with—; —accumulates; —circulates; —ravages.

Adverbs for Poison
insidiously; murderously; premeditativcly; maliciously; organically; corrosively; intoxicatingly; basely; diabolically.

Thesaurus
Cain, DDD, DDT, Paris green, abomination, abuse, acaricide, activate, adulterate, adulteration, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, annihilate, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antimony, antiseptic, apache, arsenic, arsenic trioxide, assassin, assassinator, atrocity, bad, bane, befoul, befoulment, bereave of life, beryllium, bewitch, bichloride of mercury, blight, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, bug bomb, burker, butcher, button man, cadmium, cancer, canker, cannibal, carbamate insecticide, carbolic acid, carbon monoxide, carbon tetrachloride, carry away, carry off, charge, cheapen, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, chlorine, chloroform, coarsen, communicability, condemn, confound, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, contaminate, contamination, corrupt, corruption, crucify, crying evil, curse, cut down, cut off, cutthroat, cyanide, damage, deadliness, debase, debauch, defile, defilement, deflower, defoliant, degenerate, degrade, demoralize, denature, deprave, deprive of life, desecrate, desperado, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, destructiveness, detriment, devalue, disadvantage, disinfectant, dispatch, dispose of, disserve, distort, distress, do a mischief, do away with, do evil, do for, do ill, do to death, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embalming fluid, empoison, end, envenom, eradicant, eradicator, evil, execute, executioner, exterminate, exterminator, finish, finish off, formaldehyde, fumigant, fungicide, garroter, germicide, get into trouble, gorilla, grievance, gun, gunman, gunsel, harass, harm, hatchet man, havoc, head-hunter, herbicide, hex, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, hurt, hydrocyanic acid, hyoscyamine, ill, immolate, impair, infect, infection, infectiousness, infectivity, injure, injury, insect powder, insecticide, irradiate, jinx, kill, killer, launch into eternity, lead, liquidate, lynch, make away with, malignancy, maltreat, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, martyr, martyrize, massacrer, matador, menace, mephitic, mephitis, mercuric chloride, mercury, miasma, microbicide, mischief, mistreat, misuse, miticide, molest, murder, murderer, mustard gas, nicotine, noxiousness, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage, panther piss, persecute, pervert, pesticide, pestilence, phenol, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poison gas, poisoner, poisonousness, pollute, pollution, prejudice, prostitute, prussic acid, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, radiumize, rat poison, ravage, ravish, remove from life, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, rotgut, sacrifice, savage, scathe, selenium, shellac, slaughterer, slay, slayer, sophistication, stain, starve, stomach poison, strangler, strychnine, subvert, systemic, systemic insecticide, taint, take life, take off, the worst, threaten, thug, torment, torpedo, torture, toxic, toxicant, toxicity, toxin, trigger man, twist, ulcerate, venin, venom, venomous, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, violate, virulence, virulency, virulent, virus, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, weed killer, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

Etymology
From poison: <  potio: < potare:. See also potion: and potable:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: pozoi
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , 毒药
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ވިހަ
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Giftstoff
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:, bisa (of snake)
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:, , ده‌رمانخوارد, ژه‌هر
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Gëft
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: otravă,
 * Romansch: tissi, teissa, tössi
 * Russian:, отрава
 * Scots: pushion
 * Scottish Gaelic:, puinnsean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: отров
 * Roman: otrov
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: benę̀nu’úne
 * Telugu: విషం
 * Thai: (pít),  (yaa pít)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: отрути
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: chất độc, thuốc độc
 * Volapük: venen
 * Walloon: pwezon
 * Welsh: gwenwyn
 * !Xóõ: ǁāã, sòo


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 * Norwegian:
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Verb

 * Armenian: թունավորել
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: emmetzinar, enverinar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 毒害
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forgifte
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: mürgitama
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, φαρμακώνω
 * Greek:
 * Modern: δηλητηριάζω
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: invenenar,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 毒を混入する (mix with poison), 毒を盛る
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Polish:, zatruwać,
 * Portuguese:, empeçonhar,
 * Russian: отравлять, травить , отравить
 * Scots: pushion
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: envenenar
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: venenön


 * Catalan: emmetzinar, enverinar
 * Czech:
 * Greek:
 * Greek:
 * Modern: μολύνω


 * Russian: отравлять травить, отравить
 * Scots: pushion
 * Slovak:


 * Catalan: emmetzinar, enverinar
 * Czech:
 * Greek:
 * Greek:
 * Modern: δηλητηριάζω


 * Scots: pushion
 * Slovak:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) poison

Etymology
potio:.

Derived terms

 * empoisonnement
 * empoisonner

Noun

 * 1) poison
 * 2) potion

Descendants

 * English:
 * French: