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Meaning of empoison | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To poison.

Examples

“And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn”
“She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles, / Infused love among the dainties set, / And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles, / And made each knight himself and God forget.”
“In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede.”
“Shooting somebody, empoisoning him or hanging him give quite often more or less the same results.”
“Mag and Maureen do not represent an idealized, sentimentalized mother-and-child relationship; they are two unhappy, malignant harpies tearing and empoisoning each other.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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