Meaning of poison | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
   countable, uncountable
2. A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested
3. Poisonous.
4. Anything harmful to a person or thing
5. Anything harmful to a person or thing.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
6. a remedy for or antidote against poison or infection. — alexipharmic, adj.
7. An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
8. poisoning caused by atropine or belladonna.
9. Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity
10. Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
    countable, uncountable
11. a condition of chronic poisoning caused by excessive use of barbiturates.
12. To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody)
13. a disease of the nervous system caused by botulin developments in spoiled foods eaten by animals and man; a variety of bacterial food poisoning.
14. a toxic condition caused by the misuse of the counterirritant and diuretic cantharides.
15. drunkenness or intoxication from alcohol, especially as an habitual state.
16. a condition in which the blood contains toxin from the intestines.
17. a condition caused by eating rye or some other grain infected with ergot fungus or by an overdose of an ergot medicinal agent.
18. an abnormal fear of poisons. Cf. toxiphobia.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: (loosely) venom”

“We used a poison to kill the weeds.”

“Gossip is a malicious poison.”

“Awaie with the Rebels ſuffer them not to ſpeake, His words are poyſon in the eares of the people, […]”

“— What's your poison? — I'll have a glass of whiskey.”

“The temperature effect of poisons. The influence of poison on the catalyst can be different with the change of reaction conditions.”

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