Definitions for poison
ˈpɔɪ zənpoi·son

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. poison, toxicant, poisonous substancenoun

   any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

2. poisonverb

   anything that harms or destroys

   "the poison of fascism"

3. poisonverb

   spoil as if by poison

   "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office"

4. poisonverb

   kill with poison

   "She poisoned her husband"

5. poison, envenomverb

   add poison to

   "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"

6. poisonverb

   kill by its poison

   "This mushrooms can poison"

7. poisonverb

   administer poison to

   "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. poisonnoun

   A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.

   We used a poison to kill the weeds.

2. poisonnoun

   Something that harms a person or thing.

   Gossip is a malicious poison.

3. poisonnoun

   A drink; liquor.

4. poisonverb

   To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody

   The assassin poisoned the king.

5. poisonverb

   To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous

   That factory is poisoning the river.

6. poisonverb

   To cause something to become much worse

7. poisonverb

   To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions

   She's poisoned him against all his old friends.

8. Etymology: From poison, from potio, from poto. See also potion and potable.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. POISONnoun

   That which destroys or injures life by a small quantity, and by means not obvious to the senses; venom.

   Etymology: poison, Fr.

   The tongue is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Ja.

   Themselves were first to do the ill,
   E’er they thereof the knowledge could attain;
   Like him that knew not poison ’s power to kill,
   Until, by tasting it, himself was slain. Davies.

   One gives another a cup of poison, but at the same time tells him it is a cordial, and so he drinks it off and dies. South.

2. To Poisonverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To infect with poison.

   Envy is a lawless enemy, against whom poisoned arrows may be used. Anonymous.

   2. To attack, injure or kill by poison given.

   He was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died. 2 Mac. x. 13.

   Drink with Walters, or with Chartres eat;
   They’ll never poison you, they’ll only cheat. Alexander Pope.

   3. To corrupt; to taint.

   The other messenger,
   Whose welcome I perceiv’d, had poison’d mine. William Shakespeare.

   Hast thou not
   With thy false arts poison’d his people’s loyalty? Nicholas Rowe.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Poisonnoun

   any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases

2. Poisonnoun

   that which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin

3. Poisonnoun

   to put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink

4. Poisonnoun

   to injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to

5. Poisonnoun

   to taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind

6. Poisonverb

   to act as, or convey, a poison

7. Etymology: [Cf. OF. poisonner, F. empoissoner, L. potionare to give to drink. See Poison, n.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Poison

   In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism. The fields of medicine and zoology often distinguish a poison from a toxin, and from a venom. Toxins are poisons produced by some biological function in nature, and venoms are usually defined as toxins that are injected by a bite or sting to cause their effect, while other poisons are generally defined as substances absorbed through epithelial linings such as the skin or gut.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Poison

   poi′zn, n. any substance which, introduced into the living organism, tends to destroy its life or impair its health: anything malignant or infectious: that which taints or destroys moral purity.—v.t. to infect or to kill with poison: to taint: to mar: to embitter: to corrupt.—adj. Poi′sonable.—ns. Poi′soner; Poi′son-fang, one of two large tubular teeth in the upper jaw of venomous serpents, through which poison passes from glands at their roots when the animal bites; Poi′son-gland, a gland which secretes poison; Poi′son-ī′vy, a shrub-vine of North America, causing a cutaneous eruption; Poi′son-nut, the nux vomica.—adj. Poi′sonous, having the quality of poison: destructive: impairing soundness or purity.—adv. Poi′sonously.—n. Poi′sonousness. [Fr.,—L. potio, a draught—potāre, to drink.]

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Matched Categories

1. • Corrupt
   • Drug
   • Kill

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'poison' in Nouns Frequency: #2986

How to pronounce poison?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Priya

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of poison in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of poison in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of poison in a Sentence

1. Jon Stewart:

   The bottom line is our country exposed our own veterans to poison for years, and we knew about it, and we did not act with urgency and appropriateness, and therefore, we've lost men and women who served this country. They've died out of our inaction.

2. Uhuru Kenyatta:

   We will establish a new prison to hold violent, extremist offenders – the truth of the matter is that we cannot allow them to spread their poison to vulnerable Kenyans.

3. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Wherever and whenever you open your trading terminal just keep selling. That's the mantra to safeguard yourself from losses in stock market. However, the poison snake aka Brokers will not let you traders to do by putting all obstacles

4. Ray Hage:

   We believe the shot will lead to desensitization and reduce or eliminate reactions to poison ivy, oak and sumac, every March I start to get e-mails from people asking, ‘Where is the drug? Can I be in a trial?’.

5. Yassine Aumerally:

   Lie is the biggest poison for Love

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