Thesaurus: poison

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1. n. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
2. n. That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
3. n. To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
4. n. To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
5. n. To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
6. v. i. To act as, or convey, a poison.
7. n. any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
8. n. anything that harms or destroys
9. v. spoil as if by poison
10. v. kill with poison
11. v. add poison to
12. v. kill by its poison