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Poison

noun

Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism. Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant.

Anything that harms or destroys.

verb

(past & past part. poisoned; pres. part. poisoning)

Spoil as if by poison. "Poison the atmosphere in the office"

Kill with poison.

Add poison to. Synonym: envenom.

Kill by its poison.

Administer poison to.

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"Poison" Quotes from Famous Books

... to say it in! How can I make a MAN understand that a feeling which horrifies me at myself, can be a feeling that fascinates me at the same time? It's the breath of my life, Godfrey, and it's the poison that kills me—both in one! Go away! I must be out of my mind to talk as I am talking now. No! you mustn't leave me—you mustn't carry away a wrong impression. I must say what is to be said in my own defence. ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

... rank weeds of secession and treason, spreading poison and devastation over that portion of our fair national heritage. But from the same soil, amidst the ruin and desolation which followed the breaking out of the rebellion, there sprang up growths of loyalty and patriotism, which by flowering and fruitage, redeemed the land from the ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

... deficient, and for a time lost sight of them altogether. The manly, athletic frame, and noble countenance, with which I was blessed, served to render me only more like a painted sepulchre—all was foul within. Like a beautiful snake, whose poison is concealed under the gold and azure of its scales, my inward man was made up of pride, revenge, deceit, and selfishness, and my best talents were generally applied ...

— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... bathed, and taken leave of his children and the women of his family the officer of the Eleven comes in to intimate to him that it is now time to drink the poison. Crito urges a little delay, as the sun had not yet set; but Socrates refuses to make himself ridiculous by showing such a fondness for life. The man who is to administer the poison is therefore sent ...

— Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates • Plato

... Coodoma. Cuttup. The Sultan of Cuttup. Lander and the Wives of the Sultan. The River Rary. Dunrora. Lander taken back to Cuttup. Zaria. Crosses the Koodonia. Arrival at Badagry. Attempt on the Life of Lander by Poison. Ransomed by Captain ...

— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

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