poison
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English poysoun, poyson, pusoun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtiōnem (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“to drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root). Mostly displaced native Old English ātor. See more at atter.
Inflected forms:
form: poisons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poisons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poisoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poisoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poisoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: (loosely) venom
We used a poison to kill the weeds.
gloss: Anything harmful to a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Gossip is a malicious poison.
Awaie with the Rebels ſuffer them not to ſpeake,
His words are poyſon in the eares of the people, […]
gloss: An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
pos: noun
tags: countable
idiomatic
informal
uncountable
examples: — What's your poison?
— I'll have a glass of whiskey.
gloss: Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The temperature effect of poisons. The influence of poison on the catalyst can be different with the change of reaction conditions.
gloss: To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The assassin poisoned the king.
gloss: To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That factory is poisoning the river.
gloss: To cause to become much worse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Suspicion will poison their relationship.
He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
gloss: To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
gloss: To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
pos: verb
gloss: To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.
Derived words: antipoison
arrow poison
arrow-poison frog
berry poison
box poison
bullock poison
bushman poison
bushman's poison
Champion Bay poison
Circean poison
cluster poison
counterpoison
crinkle-leaved poison
crow poison
dew poison
Durban poison
eastern poison ivy
empoison
fish poison tree
Gilbernine poison
granite poison
heart-leaved poison
Hill River poison
Hook Point poison
horned poison
Hottentot's poison bush
Hutt River poison
impoison
kite-leaved poison
mallet poison
Mount Ragged poison
Myers' poison frog
name one's poison
narrow-leaved poison
net-leaved poison
neutron poison
nuclear poison
one man's fish is another man's poison
one man's meat is another man's poison
Phillips River poison
pick your poison
poison arrow
poison arrow frog
poison ash
poison at the box office
poisonberry
poison book
Poison Cross
poison dart frog
poison dart plant
poison dogwood
poisoner
poisonful
poison gas
poison gland
poison hemlock
poisoning
poison-ivy
poison ivy
poisonless
poisonlike
poison message
poisonmonger
poison-nut
poison nut
poison oak
poisonous
poison parsnip
poison pawn
poison pen
poison-pen letter
poison pen letter
poison pill
poison queue
poisonsome
poison sumac
poisonvetch
poisonweed
poisonwood
poisony
prickly poison
rat poison
rigid-leaf poison
river poison
rock poison
Roe's poison
runner poison
sandplain poison
Santander poison frog
sea poison tree
slender poison
spike poison
spindle poison
spitpoison
spit-poison
spot-legged poison frog
Stirling Range poison
taste of one's own poison
the dose makes the poison
thick-leaved poison
unpoison
wallflower poison
western poison ivy
western poison oak
what's yer poison
what's your poison
white gum poison
wodjil poison
woolly poison
York Road poison
lead poisoning
outpoison
poisonability
poisonable
poisoned chalice
poison the well
radiation poisoning
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: verí
lang: Catalan
word: metzina
lang: Czech
word: jed
lang: Greek
word: δηλητήριο
roman: dilitírio
lang: Marshallese
word: baijin
lang: Middle English
word: poysoun
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gift
lang: Sanskrit
word: विष
roman: viṣa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: nimh
lang: Turkish
word: zıkkım
lang: Turkish
word: ağı
lang: Greek
word: ποτό
roman: potó
lang: Slovak
word: jed
lang: Turkish
word: zıkkım