Venom

4 definitions found

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

  Venom \Ven"om\, n. [OE. venim, OF. venim, venin, F. venin, L.
     venenum. Cf. {Venenate}.]
     1. Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly,
        the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as
        serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of
        health, and communicate by biting or stinging.


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              Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. --Milton.
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     2. Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. --Chaucer. "The
        venom of such looks." --Shak.
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     Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See {Poison}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Venom \Ven"om\, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare.
     See {Venom}, n.]
     To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed
     vengeance." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  venom
       n 1: toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and
            poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
       2: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: {malice}, {maliciousness},
           {spite}, {spitefulness}]

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

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "venom":
     abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity,
     animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity,
     bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling,
     bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb,
     carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant,
     chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability,
     contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil,
     damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation,
     destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant,
     evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant,
     fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings,
     harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt,
     ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency,
     infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury,
     insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice,
     maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide,
     mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness,
     organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage,
     pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor,
     rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide,
     roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness,
     spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic,
     systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant,
     toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta,
     venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence,
     virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong