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Another word for poison

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poison

n.

virus, bane, toxin, infection, germ, bacteria, oil, vapor, gas; see also venom 1.

Types of poisons include: rattlesnake, copperhead, black-widow-spider, tarantula venom; poison oak, poison ivy, death angel mushroom, hemlock, foxglove, nightshade, carbon monoxide gas, cooking gas, arsenic, lead, strychnine, oxalic, sulphuric, hydrochloric, nitric, carbolic, prussic, hydrocyanic acid; cyanide, cantharides, caustic soda, lye, belladonna, curare, aconite, Paris green, lead arsenate, blue vitriol, copper sulfate, nicotine, DDT, Agent Orange, radiation, radon gas, botulin.

poison Synonyms

poison

v.

infect, injure, kill, murder, destroy, vitiate, corrupt, pervert, undermine, defile, harm, taint, envenom, make ill, cause violent illness.

Antonyms benefit, help*, purify.

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Another word for poison

noun

Anything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal:
bane, canker, contagion, toxin, venom, virus. See help
One that contaminates:
adulterant, adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, pollutant. See clean

verb

To make physically impure:
contaminate, defile, foul, pollute. See clean
To have a destructive effect on:
canker, envenom, infect. (Archaic) empoison. See help

adjective

Capable of injuring or killing by poison:

mephitic, mephitical, poisonous, toxic, toxicant, venomous, virulent. See help

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Jonny was safe, even if she hadn't been able to wipe away all traces of the poison in his blood.
Its words are poison but its magic protects my city.
The guards on the fortress walls had bunched together to watch and draw poison- tipped arrows.
Desault died suddenly, not without suspicion of poison, on the 1st of June, and it was some days before doctors Pelletan and Dumangin were called.
I didn't even see any poison ivy today.

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