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poison English

Meaning poison meaning

What does poison mean?
Definitions in simple English

poison

Poison is a substance that makes people sick or kills them if it gets into their body. He put out poison to get rid of the mice. Some snakes can deliver poison by biting you.

poison

If mathx/math poisons mathy/math, mathx/math puts poison in mathy/math. They poisoned the king's food. He poisoned the ants to get rid of them. If something poisons a person or animal, it makes them sick, or kills them chemically. The drugs that he used were slowly poisoning him. If something poisons someone's mind, it puts bad thoughts there.

poison

any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism spoil as if by poison poison someone's mind poison the atmosphere in the office kill with poison She poisoned her husband add poison to Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her anything that harms or destroys the poison of fascism administer poison to She poisoned her husband but he did not die kill by its poison This mushrooms can poison

Synonyms poison synonyms

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Topics poison topics

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Conjugation poison conjugation

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poison · verb

Examples poison examples

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Simple sentences

She killed herself by taking poison.
There's no poison in this fish.
That is poison as well.
Is sugar a poison?
I asked Tom to buy some rat poison.
This medicine is a poison by nature.
Mary tried to poison Tom with an unknown substance.
If your child drinks poison, rush him to the hospital.
He thought someone had put poison in his soup.
If it is wrongly used, the medicine will be a poison.
This medicine is not a poison in itself.
This poison is very effective in getting rid of roaches.
This medicine is a natural poison.
This transparent liquid contains a kind of poison.
This transparent liquid contains poison.
This fish is free from poison.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Carbon dioxide is not a poison in itself.
He took poison by mistake.
Someone tried to poison our dog's food.
The victim is thought to have taken a large quantity of poison by mistake.
He killed himself by taking poison.

Movie subtitles

Yeah, make sure it's okay to poison it.
My first thought was poison oak in the dress.
Where can a person buy poison oak, and what is the rashiest kind?
Poison oak, rashiest kind.
It's my life. You don't have a clue what it is to have poison running through your body.
Mrs. Frizzle did not try to poison your dog.
The poison that was used was strychnine, the same that was used on Horace.
The same poison used in the same manner would suggest the same poisoner.
We would like poison for two people.
I will poison myself.
You're going to be poison to that Junior Leaguer from now on.
And if you don't help me. you as had the kindest heart in the world, sir. then give me poison so I can kill myself!
You got this bottle of poison. to kill.
It was only the poison you wanted.
Its tail ends in a sixth joint, a sac from which poison is injected by barbed sting.
You're going to be poison to that Junior Leaguer.
In the British Army in France during World War I, Rains was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment and poison gas.
Eventually he was able to speak again, and Rains later would say that the unique, husky quality of his voice was due to the effects of the poison gas.
I'd like to push his poison down his own throat.
Name your poison, and I'll supply it.
Name your poison.
Me, what likes kids like tub of rat poison.
So that's your tub of rat poison.
Hey, don't drink that poison!
Might be poison.
And all females is poison!
A sedative and a poison.
And it's got, like, this poison stuff that comes from the claws and the tail.
You don't have a clue what it is to have poison running through your body.
Wrap up that lot and put some poison ivy on it. Yes, sir.
But this poison gas gives us security.
They tell me your managing editor is poison.

News and current affairs

Russian involvement in world affairs is tainted by poison and corruption.
Some Chinese scholars now question the wisdom of allowing the bitter anti-foreignism of the 19 th century to poison China's 21 st century diplomacy.
Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.
A monopoly is poison for a market economy, because it increases prices and decreases volume.
The poison of terrorism has now ripped into the humanitarian work of the UN, with the tragic bombing of its Iraq mission's headquarters.
Hers was not kindness but the pure, strong poison of love.
Rising budget deficits will poison US domestic politics and lead to budgetary gridlock.
Strengthening the response to naturally occurring infectious diseases or poisoning is needed to protect against the deliberate misuse of science to spread disease or poison.
On the contrary, these buried memories silently poison the lives of victims, giving rise to seemingly inexplicable psychiatric symptoms, and therefore must be exhumed for healing to occur.
Similarly, the Aum Shinrykio cult that spread the poison gas sarin in Tokyo's subway in 1995 had no connection to Islam.
For years it has injected a slow-release poison into society.
Unless Europe's leaders roundly condemn this unholy triple alliance, it will poison Middle East politics and transatlantic relations alike.
Our people understand that the Yanukovych government is not just political poison.
The problem is that everyone writes history in their own manner, and that there are no scales that can fix the precise point at which the remedy of unifying patriotism turns into the lethal poison of rabid nationalism.
PARIS - By chance, it appears that the US Congress will decide on or around September 11 whether to endorse President Barack Obama's proposal to respond militarily to the Syrian government's use of poison gas against civilians.
After all, another Middle East conflict would poison and distort relations in the region for decades, which would be the worst of all possible consequences - for the US and China alike.
The army forced Wilhelm into exile in the Netherlands, where, until his death in 1941, he spread venomous poison where he could: the Jews and socialists were to blame; he alone was right.
In 2006, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in an elevator, and Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who had been critical of Putin, died of polonium poison while in exile in London.
A basic principle of toxicology is that the dose makes the poison.
LONDON - Twenty-five years ago, on March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein's troops spread poison gas through the Kurdish town of Halabja.
At the same time, the involvement of a rule-bound international agency would minimize the political poison associated with bank recapitalizations and currency interventions.
Reducing US agricultural protectionism significantly would be an equally positive measure in drawing the poison out of diplomatic relations.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deployed poison gas and later barrel bombs filled with nails and metal fragments against his rebellious population.
But as my pest-control agent's answer illustrated, one man's poison can be another's assurance.

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