Envenom

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Envenom \En*ven"om\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Envenomed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Envenoming}.] [OE. envenimen, F. envenimer; pref. en-
     (L. in) + F. venin poison. See {Venom}.]
     1. To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance
        noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly
        by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat,


        wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating
        with venom.
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              Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. --Milton.
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              O, what a world is this, when what is comely
              Envenoms him that bears it!           --Shak.
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     2. To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred;
        to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
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              The envenomed tongue of calumny.      --Smollett.
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              On the question of slavery opinion has of late years
              been peculiarly envenomed.            --Sir G. C.
                                                    Lewis.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  envenom
       v 1: cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices
            embittered her even more" [syn: {embitter}, {acerbate}]
       2: add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to
          kill her" [syn: {poison}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "envenom":
     abuse, acerbate, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, alienate,
     antagonize, befoul, bewitch, bitter, blight, condemn, corrupt,
     crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy,
     disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill,
     do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embitter, empoison, estrange,
     exacerbate, get into trouble, harass, harm, heat up, hex, hurt,
     impair, infect, infuriate, injure, jinx, madden, maltreat, menace,
     mistreat, molest, outrage, persecute, play havoc with,
     play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, provoke, savage, scathe,
     set against, set at odds, sour, taint, threaten, torment, torture,
     violate, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong