Definitions for poison
ˈpɔɪ zənpoi·son

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

1. poison, toxicant, poisonous substance(noun)

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

2. poison(verb)

   anything that harms or destroys

   "the poison of fascism"

3. poison(verb)

   spoil as if by poison

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

4. poison(verb)

   kill with poison

   "She poisoned her husband"

5. poison, envenom(verb)

   add poison to

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

6. poison(verb)

   kill by its poison

   "This mushrooms can poison"

7. poison(verb)

   administer poison to

   "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. poison(Noun)

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

   We used a poison to kill the weeds.

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

2. poison(Noun)

   Something that harms a person or thing.

   Gossip is a malicious poison.

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

3. poison(Noun)

   A drink; liquor.

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

4. poison(Verb)

   To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody

   The assassin poisoned the king.

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

5. poison(Verb)

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

   That factory is poisoning the river.

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

6. poison(Verb)

   To cause something to become much worse

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

7. poison(Verb)

   To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions

   She's poisoned him against all his old friends.

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

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

1. Poison(noun)

   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

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

2. Poison(noun)

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

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

3. Poison(noun)

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

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

4. Poison(noun)

   to injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to

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

5. Poison(noun)

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

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

6. Poison(verb)

   to act as, or convey, a poison

   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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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce poison?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven:

   Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

2. Cometan:

   Those who have no knowledge, we enknowledge. Those who have knowledge, we encourage. Those who have knowledge yet choose to poison the world, for them, we must pray.

3. Jean Cocteau:

   The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

4. Clive Lewis:

   Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

5. Anuj Somany:

   A woman may look an innocent to an ignorant, but only an intelligent man knows as how much poison she might have that of a venomous serpent.

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