Poisoned

2 definitions found

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

  Poison \Poi"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poisoned}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Poisoning}.] [Cf. OF. poisonner, F. empoissoner, L.
     potionare to give to drink. See {Poison}, n.]
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     1. To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to
        poison an arrow; to poison food or drink. "The ingredients


        of our poisoned chalice." --Shak.
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     2. To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
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              If you poison us, do we not die ?     --Shak.
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     3. To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons
        happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
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              Whispering tongues can poison truth.  --Coleridge.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "poisoned":
     activated, autoluminescent, bad, cankered, charged, contaminated,
     diseased, gangrened, gangrenous, hot, infected, irradiated, morbid,
     mortified, pathological, peccant, radiferous, radioactivated,
     radioactive, radioluminescent, septic, sphacelated, tainted,
     ulcerated, ulcerous