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poison
Noun
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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
Verb
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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.
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If something poisons a person or animal, it makes them sick, or kills them chemically.
The drugs that he used were slowly poisoning him.
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If something poisons someone's mind, it puts bad thoughts there.
message
Noun
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A message is information that is sent between living things and is sent from one person to the other. There are some types of message, like phone message and subliminal message.
On his desk there was a message from Jack to call home.
Can you give Joan the message that I called?
message
Verb
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If you message someone, you send them a note or letter or e-mail; you message them.
Can you please message me the directions?
queue
Verb
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If you queue, then you wait in or join a line.
A line of people queued by the box office.
There was an argument here about someone cutting the queue just now.