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 Definitions of Venom  [ˈvɛn əm]  

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Definition of 'Venom' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) venom
the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.

2.  venom
something suggesting poison in its effect, as malice or jealousy.

3.  venom
Archaic. poison in general.

Etymology:  (1175–1225; < OF venim, venin&indirdesc; L venēnum magical potion, poison)

Definition of 'Venom' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) venom
toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)

2. (noun) malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom
feeling a need to see others suffer


Definition of 'Venom' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) venom
poison from an animal
snake venom

2.  venom
extreme hatred
You could hear the venom in her voice.


Definition of 'Venom' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Venom
matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging

2. (noun) Venom
spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer

3. (noun) Venom
to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison


Definitions of 'Venom' The Roycroft Dictionary 

Venom
1. The juice of hate.

2. The sap of reformers, moralists and socialists.

3. The deadly smile of the optimist when he looks at the under dog.

4. The physical sweat of a defeated candidate and the emotional sweat of old maids. (Venom, like everything else, is subject to the law of evolution and variation. Between the venom of Cain and the venom of Tolstoy, several million instances could be quoted to prove the universality and beneficence of this breedy instinct.)


Translation of 'Venom' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the poison produced by some snakes, scorpions etc, transmitted by biting or stinging
the venom of a cobra.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: gif Arabic flag Arabic: سُم الأفْعى Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: отрова (на влечуго)
Brazilian flag Brazilian: veneno Czech flag Czech: jed German flag German: das Gift
Danish flag Danish: gift Greek flag Greek: δηλητήριο Spanish flag Spanish: veneno
Estonian flag Estonian: ussimürk Farsi flag Farsi: زهر Finnish flag Finnish: myrkky
French flag French: venin Hebrew flag Hebrew: אֶרֶס Hindi flag Hindi: विष
Croatian flag Croatian: otrov Hungarian flag Hungarian: méreg Indonesian flag Indonesian: bisa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: eitur Italian flag Italian: veleno Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: (뱀, 거미, 벌 등의) 독액 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nuodai Latvian flag Latvian: (čūskas, skorpiona) inde
Malay flag Malay: bisa Dutch flag Dutch: vergif Norwegian flag Norwegian: gift, eiter
Polish flag Polish: jad Portuguese flag Portuguese: veneno Romanian flag Romanian: venin
Russian flag Russian: яд Slovak flag Slovak: jed Slovenian flag Slovenian: strup
Serbian flag Serbian: otrov Swedish flag Swedish: gift Thai flag Thai: พิษจากการถูกสัตว์กัดต่อย
Turkish flag Turkish: zehir Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 蛇的毒液 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: отрута
Urdu flag Urdu: زہر Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nọc độc Chinese flag Chinese: (某些蛇、蝎子等分泌的)毒液

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