Poison Synonyms & Definitions

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• PoisonDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
2. (n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
3. (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
4. (n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
5. (n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
6. (v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

• Poison cupDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () A cup containing poison.
2. () A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.