poisoned
/ˈpɔɪzn̩d/ adjective B1- Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison. · The snake left its poisoned prey to die.
- Containing poison; poisonous. · The hunters began to fire their poisoned darts.
- Having a strongly negative effect; harmful. · This is a poisoned work environment.
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The more I thought of it the more extraordinary did my companion’s hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned, appear.
An hour afterwards a physician declared they were both poisoned through eating mushrooms.
died, poisoned,—you know by what mistake.
Cæsar, poisoned at the same time, escaped by shedding his skin like a snake; but the new skin was spotted by the poison till it looked like a tiger’s.
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