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Envenom   Listen
verb
Envenom  v. t.  (past & past part. envenomed; pres. part. envenoming)  
1.
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. "Alcides... felt the envenomed robe." "O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!"
2.
To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. "The envenomed tongue of calumny." "On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed."





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"Envenom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nature! partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain; The lion and the bull thy care have found, One shakes the forests, and one spurns the ground; Thou giv'st the ass his hide, the snail his shell; Th' envenom'd wasp, victorious, guards his cell; Thy minions kings defend, control, devour, In all th' omnipotence of rule and power; Foxes and statesmen subtile wiles ensure; The cit and polecat stink, and are secure; Toads with their poison, doctors ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... father's love and mortal's agony, With an immortal's patience blending:—vain The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the living links,—the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
... metal came into her eyes as the scene in the house of the Beg of Rataj shut out the lovely landscape before her. To destroy—to fan the spark to flame that she might extinguish it; to corrode the spirit with the biting acid of contempt; to envenom the soul—newly born, perhaps—to the sweeter uses of beneficence, and then ...
— The Secret Witness • George Gibbs
... and a new horror charged his bloodshot eyes as he recalled the devilish craft employed by the natives to envenom their weapons. ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder


Words linked to "Envenom" :   resent, embitter, alter, modify, change


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