poison
/ˈpɔɪ.zən/ verb B2- To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody). · The assassin poisoned the king.
- To pollute; to cause to become poisonous. · That factory is poisoning the river.
- To cause to become much worse. · Suspicion will poison their relationship.· He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
- To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions. · She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
- To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
He/she/it poisons · Past poisoned · Past participle poisoned · -ing form poisoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- poison
- He/she/it
- poisons
- Past
- poisoned
- Past participle
- poisoned
- -ing form
- poisoning
From the library
Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
“Stay there,” shouted the monkeys, “till we have killed thy friends, and later we will play with thee--if the Poison-People leave thee alive.”
And hide you, O Poison People.
“Well, we’re not getting a girl,” said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.
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