Another word for poison
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Noun
Anything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal
- Any of various submicroscopic agents that infect living organisms, often causing disease, and that consist of a single or double strand of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.
- A disease caused by a virus.
- A computer program or series of commands that can replicate itself and that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other files or programs which users later transfer to other computers. Viruses usually have a harmful effect, as in erasing all the data on a disk.
- A poisonous secretion of an animal, such as a snake, spider, or scorpion, usually transmitted to prey or to attackers by a bite or sting.
- Malice; spite:
- A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms and is capable of causing disease when introduced into the body tissues but is often also capable of inducing neutralizing antibodies or antitoxins.
- A poisonous or harmful nonbiological substance, such as a pollutant.
- Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact.
- A disease that is or may be transmitted by direct or indirect contact; a contagious disease.
- The direct cause, such as a bacterium or virus, of a communicable disease.
- Ulceration of the mouth and lips.
- An inflammation or infection of the ear and auditory canal, especially in dogs and cats.
- A condition in horses similar to but more advanced than thrush.
- A cause of harm, ruin, or death:
- A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation:
- Fatal injury or ruin:
See also:One that contaminates
- Something that pollutes, especially a waste material that contaminates air, soil, or water.
- Contamination or pollution.
- Lack of consistency or homogeneity; adulteration.
- A state of immorality; sin.
- A person who contaminates
- A thing that contaminates; a contaminant
- The act or process of contaminating.
- The state of being contaminated.
- One that contaminates.
- One that contaminates.
- One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something.
- A substance that adulterates.
- Serving to adulterate.
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Verb
To make physically impure
- To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter.
- To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors:
- To render impure or morally harmful; corrupt:
- Offensive to the senses; revolting:
- Having a bad odor or taste:
- Rotten or putrid:
- To make filthy or dirty; pollute:
- To debase the pureness or excellence of; corrupt:
- To profane or sully (a reputation, for example).
- To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
- To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
- To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with:
See also:To have a destructive effect on
- To fill with venom; embitter.
- To poison.
- To invade and proliferate in, often resulting in disease. Used of microorganisms or other infectious agents:
- To cause the invasion of (a cell, for example) with a microorganism or other infectious agent:
- To transmit a pathogen or disease to:
- To make poisonous or noxious.
- To embitter.
- Ulceration of the mouth and lips.
- An inflammation or infection of the ear and auditory canal, especially in dogs and cats.
- A condition in horses similar to but more advanced than thrush.
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Adjective
Capable of injuring or killing by poison
- Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.
- Capable of causing disease by aggressively interfering with the immune system of the host. Used of a pathogen.
- Extremely hostile or malicious:
- Secreting and transmitting venom:
- Full of or containing venom:
- Malicious; spiteful:
- A poison or poisonous agent.
- Poisonous; toxic.
- Of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or other poison:
- Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous:
- Extremely risky or harmful, as a debt for which the borrower is in default and the collateral has lost so much value that its sale cannot cover the amount of the loan.
- Containing or being a poison:
- Capable of harming or killing by poison:
- Full of ill will; malicious or spiteful:
- Alternative form of mephitic.
- of or caused by mephitis
- bad-smelling
- poisonous; noxious
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Another word for poison
Noun
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Verb
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- To make poisonous or noxious.
- To embitter.
- To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible:
- To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance:
- To subject to decay or putrefaction:
- Physical or psychological damage or injury:
- Immoral or unjust effects:
- To do harm to:
- To make filthy or dirty; pollute:
- To debase the pureness or excellence of; corrupt:
- To profane or sully (a reputation, for example).
- To weaken by wearing away a base or foundation:
- To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly; sap:
- To dig a mine or tunnel beneath.
- To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase:
- To corrupt (someone) morally.
- To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
- Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
- Venal or dishonest:
- Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
- To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil:
- To corrupt morally; debase:
- To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.
- To break apart the structure of, render physically unusable, or cause to cease to exist as a distinguishable physical entity:
- To put an end to; eliminate:
- To render useless or ruin:
- The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
- An instance of such killing.
- Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous:
- To put to death:
- To deprive of life:
- To put an end to; extinguish:
- To cause physical harm to; hurt:
- To experience injury in (oneself or a body part):
- To cause damage to; impair:
- To invade and proliferate in, often resulting in disease. Used of microorganisms or other infectious agents:
- To cause the invasion of (a cell, for example) with a microorganism or other infectious agent:
- To transmit a pathogen or disease to:
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