poison

[ˈpɔɪzn]

Definition:
1. Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.
2. Anything that harms or destroys.
3. Spoil as if by poison.
4. Kill by its poison.
5. Kill with poison.
6. Add poison to.

Use 'poison' in a sentence:

1. The rumours that she had poisoned him could never be proved.
2. You will have to kill these unwanted plants with poison.
3. In fact, farmers used to poison them in large numbers.
4. Poison gas blew off and endangered the lives of hundreds of persons.
5. Poison from the fish causes paralysis, swelling, and nausea.
6. Many doctors fail to report cases, even though food poisoning is a notifiable disease.
7. Did any see the poison given?
8. Employees were taken to hospital yesterday after being poisoned by fumes.
9. Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.
10. We walked through poison oak and got scratched by thorns.
11. How doth one know there was poison given at all?
12. "What people eat can be medicine or poison." Rea says.
13. Toxic waste could endanger lives and poison fish.
14. He had suffered a serious case of food poisoning over the Christmas holidays.
15. Please your Majesty, the doctors testified that none die with such symptoms but by poison.
16. The land has been completely poisoned by chemicals.
17. Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poison-free food.
18. He does not regard his new job as a poisoned chalice.
19. This simple idea is that sugar is as good—or as bad—as poison and should be avoided.
20. The officer knelt, and answered, "So please your Majesty, he hath taken the life of a subject by poison."
21. The police suspected poisoning.
22. The autopsy report gave the cause of death as poisoning.
23. No business likes to admit that it sells addictive poison as a lifestyle choice.
24. The poison inside them moves through rain water to the bottom of the landfill.
25. The doctor pumped the poison out of the child's stomach.
26. Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning.
27. Markov died after being struck by a poison dart.
28. He was afraid to be punished, so he drank the poison to kill himself.
29. Welfare was a poison.
30. The rats were controlled by poisoning.
31. The whole atmosphere has really been poisoned.
32. She succeeded in poisoning their minds against me.
33. Some believe this level of compensation is essentially a poison pill to put off any rival bidders.
34. The snake can squirt poison from a distance of a metre.
35. 'Poison' took first prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.
36. "Poison" took first prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.
37. Did the farmer suck the poison out of the wound?
38. He could not possibly have been poisoned as popular legend has it.
39. The substance has been scheduled as a poison.
40. Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
41. There is no known antidote to the poison.
42. If I was your wife I would poison your coffee.
43. How did he die? Was it poison?
44. Her blood was found to contain poison.
45. It was found that her blood contained poison.
46. Cases of food poisoning have trebled in the last two years.
47. In cases of food poisoning, young children are especially vulnerable.
48. He was barely able to drag his poisoned leg behind him.
49. Large sections of the river have been poisoned by toxic waste from factories.
50. The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned.
51. The post-mortem revealed traces of poison in his stomach.
52. Police believe his wife could not have administered the poison.