Sekirov Dictionary

poison

/ˈpɔɪ.zən/

noun 4
verb 6
forms 5
phrases 3

noun4

•
something that kills or badly harms a person or an animal that eats or drinks it
- We used a poison to kill the weeds.
•
Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- The temperature effect of poisons. The influence of poison on the catalyst can be different with the change of reaction conditions. — 2013
•
(figurative) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- Gossip is a malicious poison.
•
(informal) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
- — What's your poison? — I'll have a glass of whiskey.

verb6

•
To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
- The assassin poisoned the king.
•
To cause to become much worse.
- Suspicion will poison their relationship.
- He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
•
To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- That factory is poisoning the river.
•
To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
•
To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages. — 2013
To inhibit the catalytic activity of.

forms

poisoned · poisoning · poisoneth · poisons · poisonest

Phrases with poison

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