Definition of poison in English:

poison

noun ˈpɔɪz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n

mass noun

1A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
he killed himself with poison
count noun strong chemical poisons
Example sentencesExamples
- A small amount of the material recovered from the Wood Green premises has tested positive for the presence of ricin poison.
- Trees could be engineered to grow in polluted landfills and absorb poisons, or even be designed to capture more carbon dioxide, diminishing global warming.
- The news came as police charged four North African men with terrorism offences following a raid on a flat in London last Sunday which uncovered a quantity of the deadly poison, ricin.
- He argues that there are dangers in natural foods too, which balance the dangers caused by artificial chemical poisons.
- There are ways to achieve that sense of the base, the infected, the elemental without necessarily introducing poisons into the environment!
- Because of ‘chemical drift’ those poisons are carried by the wind into towns and cities.
- It's arguably the most deadly poison in the world.
- Only a fool, a joker or a someone attempting suicide will knowingly swallow poison if it is known to be deadly.
- Local residents see a clear connection between children's illnesses and the poisons that permeate their neighborhood.
- The idea of using ‘friendly’ bacteria to combat poisons has been around for a number of years and is already used in animals such as pigs and chickens.
- Nicotine is a strong, fast acting poison and it is usually applied as a 0.5% solution in water.
- The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence.
- Homeowners should install a good carbon monoxide detector to make sure none of this deadly poison is present in their homes.
- Now they will try to discover if someone has been putting poison down to reduce the rabbit population.
- Modern chemical pesticides are poisons, developed during the second world war, and are used worldwide in agriculture.
- Having served on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 16 years, she was well aware of government's role in promoting and defending chemical poisons.
- Second-hand smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, 200 poisons, and over 40 cancer-causing compounds.
- The green color comes from copper sulphate, a common agricultural poison.
- Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it.
- As we've discussed here not long ago, the dilution of the deadly poison is such that I can chug down any amount of homeopathic water and not notice it at all.
Synonyms
toxin, venom
archaic bane
rare toxicant
1. 1.1Chemistry A substance that reduces the activity of a catalyst.
  〔化〕抑制剂
2. 1.2Physics An additive or impurity in a nuclear reactor that slows a reaction by absorbing neutrons.
  〔物理〕中子吸收剂
3. 1.3 Something that has a destructive or corrupting influence.
  meanwhile he is spreading his poison over the Internet
  Example sentencesExamples
  When he first became Director of the Court New Zealand plays were ‘box office poison’.
  It takes no time at all for them to spread their poison and to implicate others in what they have done, if only by coverup.
  I've gotta ban that woman from the Net before her poison spreads to everyone!
  An important reason for this is that those who spread the poison of hatred and brutality have not been reined in during the last fifty years or so.
  The hearings helped purge the poison from the American body politic.
  Our silence for long years has encouraged Holocaust deniers, revisionists, baiters and haters to spread their poison.
  Keynes' dream to overthrow the classical order of Adam Smith was greatly influenced by Marx's poison.
  We share their concern and resolve to work together to eliminate the monster of fascism injecting and spreading the poison of hate in our society, our country.
  Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly.
  This is a poison spreading through the body politic of the country.
  In this story, Florida itself has been ‘closed,’ the poison of the space program having corrupted the entire state.
  What's particularly insidious about deflation is that output doesn't necessarily have to contract for its poison to spread through the economy.
  Would the act required of Hamlet, fulfilled, not spread the poison further?
  Bradford's Tory council let them book a public room to spread their racist poison.
  In some cases, of course, they are the same people spreading this poison.
  Stupid laws contaminate those charged with enforcing them at the first level and then become exponentially more costly as their poison spreads through other layers of the economy.
  The poison spread by the BNP will make everyone's lives worse.
  He does not have the means to spread his poison beyond the confines of this small country.
  By the time he returned to Siler City, however, the poison spread by his original letter was already growing more toxic.
  Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain.
  Synonyms
  malice, maliciousness, ill will, hate, malevolence, malignity, malignancy, balefulness, embitterment, embitteredness, spite, spitefulness, venom, acrimony, acrimoniousness, rancour
  bad influence, blight, bane, contagion, cancer, canker, corruption, pollution

verb ˈpɔɪz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n

[with object]

1Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally.
（故意或偶然）施毒，放毒
someone had tried to poison me
Example sentencesExamples
- He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about.
- One neighbourhood solved the problem by systematically poisoning the stray dogs with pesticides.
- Remember when they poisoned rabbits, it was horrible.
- Calgary's other local short is Breakfast In Bed by Christopher Hutchens, a bizarre story of a husband who poisons his wife - with a twist.
- Fears that someone could have been poisoning the rabbits have prompted the investigation after visitors spotted bodies lying about on the ground.
- The dogs were poisoned as they sniffed their way along the beach and disturbed the creature.
- That law will remain in force, only now your duty will be to shoot or poison the fox.
- It was written and signed in June 1910 five months after he poisoned his wife.
- However, preliminary results indicate that the dogs were poisoned.
- The real ones are far worse but I dare not mention them lest their owners or fans of the owners come around one night and burn my house down or poison my dog.
- When more conventional means to control them fails, he devises an elaborate revenge which culminates in his poisoning the dogs.
- Before that two chital or spotted deer were poisoned.
- A scientist who served seven years in prison for trying to poison his wife has secured a job teaching ethics, university officials said today.
- Towards the end, as he's dying of an undefined illness, we realize he picks up chicks by poisoning their pets but acting so super nice and stuff.
- A north Cotswold couple are warning pet owners of the dangers of using slug pellets in their gardens after their dog was poisoned.
- He poisoned his wife in January of that year and was eventually caught on an ocean liner to Canada in the July, becoming the first man to be caught using radio.
- The snake's venom poisoned the wolf and raven's blood.
- Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person.
- In 1993, he got himself into bother after poisoning the vet's dog.
- I knew this and felt guilty about poisoning people with the nicotine.
Synonyms
administer poison to, give poison to
murder
1. 1.1 Adulterate or contaminate with poison.
  对（食物，饮料）下毒，放毒
  the Amazon basin is being poisoned by the mercury used by gold prospectors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Scary reports are all over the media here in southern California about some nutball who poisoned some baby food.
  When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked.
  There are of course chemicals that can be bad if their containers not properly disposed of and there is therefore a risk of contaminating groundwater or poisoning the environment.
  In June 2002, following threats that their food would be poisoned, the men were unable to eat for a period of seven days.
  If a barrel of apples contains just one poisoned apple, and you cannot tell outwardly which apple is the poisoned one, you must toss out the entire barrelful.
  It's chilling to consider that he felt the world to be so hostile that he believed his food was being poisoned and so stopped eating and so starved to death.
  In other cases, they will eat an egg or pheasant which has been poisoned and put out as bait.
  Police in India are investigating the death of a Bradford businessman's father after he ate poisoned sweets on a train.
  On the Australian mainland, they killed them by giving them poisoned food and clothing contaminated by diseases they had never before experienced.
  I thought for a moment as to whether to eat the food, in case it was poisoned.
  Michael never cooked, and if he did, the food would probably be poisoned.
  Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned.
  The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned.
  A North Yorkshire training company has been chosen to act as a safeguard against terrorists trying to poison the food chain.
  Witness how eagerly we accept the idea that our food is being poisoned by the suspect motivations and carelessness of industry, government and science.
  Would any other industry be allowed to get away with selling contaminated and poisoned products to consumers and then blame them if they get sick?
  Society is confronted daily with the anti-human nature of large-scale capitalist farming, which pollutes the environment and poisons the food supply.
  Anyone could walk in at any time and release a bio-agent that would spread from the chickens to humans, thus poisoning the food supply for who knows how many people.
  Now, the evidence that I have put to this Court is a complaint to the Commissioner of Police with an analysis from the government department showing that my food had been poisoned.
  The soul stirs and this awakening then initiates karma or action; a seed is sown for some future effect, for some future fruit, be that a sweet apple or one that is poisoned.
  Synonyms
  contaminate, put poison in, adulterate, tamper with, spike, lace, doctor
  pollute, contaminate, taint, foul, befoul, dirty, blight, spoil
2. 1.2usually as adjective poisoned Treat (a weapon or missile) with poison in order to augment its lethal effect.
  在（武器，投射物）上涂毒
  poisoned arrows
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows.
  I was especially wary of them this time, now that I knew their swords were poisoned, and dodged them as they attempted to advance on me.
  Shamans say its very breath has power, and that the sound it utters when it gasps can send poisoned darts flying, as from a blowgun.
  These they hunt with blowpipes made from hardwood, from which they can shoot poisoned darts great distances with amazing accuracy.
  That was easy, only three hundred poisoned darts were aimed at the traveler as he passed.
  During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned.
  But this is still not all there is in combat, as you can poison your weapons or arrows to do even more damage.
  He was focusing more on the men who were standing behind Aric, about to shoot poisoned arrows, no less, at the king.
  I learned how to poison arrows, and how to set explosives in them.
  But if someone made the effort to poison the arrow, it probably isn't a very good sign.
  This plan calls for Hamlet and Laertes to have a mock sword fight, but Laertes will be using a real poisoned sword.
  Duke Kingston developed a fever on their way back to the castle, and they soon figured out that the arrows had been poisoned.
3. 1.3 Prove harmful or destructive to.
  〈喻〉荼毒，毒化；破坏
  his disgust had poisoned his attitude toward everyone
  他的厌恶之情毒化了他对每个人的态度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sizeable coaching staff is just one complaint on the list of gripes which is steadily poisoning the atmosphere in Dunfermline these days and fans would be in uproar if yet more back-up was employed.
  I can feel the evil being moving closer and poisoning the atmosphere.
  What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable.
  But I simply cannot remain silent and sit here and listen when a party that is trying to attain power at any cost poisons the relationship between the two peoples of this country.
  The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting.
  We sorted it out, but it poisoned the atmosphere.
  This assumption is the opposite of the odium theologicum that too often poisons the atmosphere of the church.
  I believe their parents are definitely opposed to their daughters' stance, and may possibly be ready to sue the producer for poisoning the social atmosphere.
  A massive management reshuffle followed the scandal and while the changes poisoned the atmosphere, the newsroom was not tamed.
  Just the perception of unfairness is often enough to poison the atmosphere.
  And, if your opponent is indeed guilty of abusing those around him: It won't be long before he fatally poisons his campaign with destructive behavior.
  It is not just adverse events that can poison a positive working atmosphere.
  Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere.
  The bombings poisoned the political atmosphere and deepened the social divide
  Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life.
  That's definitely poisoning the atmosphere on both sides.
  I don't pretend to be able to explain the bizarre political attitudes now poisoning much of Europe.
  The city's protection of ‘the prefab block’ over private housing is poisoning the atmosphere and becoming a political mood killer.
  In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it.
  If getting to young people before attitudes are irredeemably poisoned is the key, then All Saints, the area's secondary school, seemed to be providing a model.
  Synonyms
  prejudice, bias, jaundice, colour, embitter, sour, envenom, warp, corrupt, subvert
4. 1.4Chemistry (of a substance) reduce the activity of (a catalyst).
  〔化〕抑制剂
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cells worked well initially, but any traces of carbon monoxide in the hydrogen fuel quickly poisoned the catalyst.
  And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc.
  It also poisons the enzyme which converts thyroxine to the more metabolically active T3 hormone.
  The catalysts are easily poisoned by lead, however, which clogs their reactive surfaces.

Phrases

what's your poison?

informal Used to ask someone what they would like to drink.
〈非正式〉想喝点什么？

Derivatives

poisoner

noun ˈpɔɪz(ə)nəˈpɔɪz(ə)nər

Popular, because of its availability, with Victorian poisoners, arsenic also caused some spectacular accidental mass poisonings, notably the Bradford Poisoning.
Example sentencesExamples
- You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
- Enforcement agencies and wildlife groups have formed a special unit to track down poisoners responsible for the ‘mindless killing’ of red kites following their re-introduction in Yorkshire.
- Capsules derived from mussels and garlic have exceeded the legal food limit for arsenic, traditionally used by poisoners.
- As a chemist by profession and the granddaughter of a suspected poisoner by circumstance, she is perfectly placed.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draught): from Old French poison 'magic potion', from Latin potio(n-) 'potion', related to potare 'to drink'.

A poison does not necessarily need to be in liquid form, but in early use the word meant a drink or medicine, specifically a potion with a harmful or dangerous ingredient. The source was Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio, also the source of potion (Middle English). The saying one man's meat is another man's poison has been around for centuries and was being described as long ago as 1604 as ‘that old moth-eaten proverb’. A similar idea is found in the work of the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c.94–55 bc): ‘What is food to one person may be bitter poison to others.’ A chalice (Middle English) from Latin calix, ‘cup’, also the source of the botanical calix) is a large cup or goblet, and a poisoned chalice something that seems attractive but is likely to be a source of problems. A poisoned chalice features in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and is the source of our expression.

Definition of poison in US English:

poison

nounˈpoiz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n

1A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Now they will try to discover if someone has been putting poison down to reduce the rabbit population.
- Because of ‘chemical drift’ those poisons are carried by the wind into towns and cities.
- The green color comes from copper sulphate, a common agricultural poison.
- Local residents see a clear connection between children's illnesses and the poisons that permeate their neighborhood.
- Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it.
- Homeowners should install a good carbon monoxide detector to make sure none of this deadly poison is present in their homes.
- Second-hand smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, 200 poisons, and over 40 cancer-causing compounds.
- He argues that there are dangers in natural foods too, which balance the dangers caused by artificial chemical poisons.
- As we've discussed here not long ago, the dilution of the deadly poison is such that I can chug down any amount of homeopathic water and not notice it at all.
- Only a fool, a joker or a someone attempting suicide will knowingly swallow poison if it is known to be deadly.
- A small amount of the material recovered from the Wood Green premises has tested positive for the presence of ricin poison.
- The idea of using ‘friendly’ bacteria to combat poisons has been around for a number of years and is already used in animals such as pigs and chickens.
- Having served on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 16 years, she was well aware of government's role in promoting and defending chemical poisons.
- Modern chemical pesticides are poisons, developed during the second world war, and are used worldwide in agriculture.
- It's arguably the most deadly poison in the world.
- Nicotine is a strong, fast acting poison and it is usually applied as a 0.5% solution in water.
- The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence.
- There are ways to achieve that sense of the base, the infected, the elemental without necessarily introducing poisons into the environment!
- The news came as police charged four North African men with terrorism offences following a raid on a flat in London last Sunday which uncovered a quantity of the deadly poison, ricin.
- Trees could be engineered to grow in polluted landfills and absorb poisons, or even be designed to capture more carbon dioxide, diminishing global warming.
Synonyms
toxin, venom
1. 1.1Chemistry A substance that reduces the activity of a catalyst.
  〔化〕抑制剂
2. 1.2Physics An additive or impurity in a nuclear reactor that slows a reaction by absorbing neutrons.
  〔物理〕中子吸收剂
3. 1.3 A person, idea, action, or situation that is considered to have a destructive or corrupting effect or influence.
  有毒害（或危险）的人（或观点、行为、情况）
  meanwhile he is spreading his poison over the Internet
  Example sentencesExamples
  We share their concern and resolve to work together to eliminate the monster of fascism injecting and spreading the poison of hate in our society, our country.
  By the time he returned to Siler City, however, the poison spread by his original letter was already growing more toxic.
  Would the act required of Hamlet, fulfilled, not spread the poison further?
  The hearings helped purge the poison from the American body politic.
  This is a poison spreading through the body politic of the country.
  It takes no time at all for them to spread their poison and to implicate others in what they have done, if only by coverup.
  Keynes' dream to overthrow the classical order of Adam Smith was greatly influenced by Marx's poison.
  I've gotta ban that woman from the Net before her poison spreads to everyone!
  Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly.
  In some cases, of course, they are the same people spreading this poison.
  Stupid laws contaminate those charged with enforcing them at the first level and then become exponentially more costly as their poison spreads through other layers of the economy.
  In this story, Florida itself has been ‘closed,’ the poison of the space program having corrupted the entire state.
  He does not have the means to spread his poison beyond the confines of this small country.
  Bradford's Tory council let them book a public room to spread their racist poison.
  When he first became Director of the Court New Zealand plays were ‘box office poison’.
  An important reason for this is that those who spread the poison of hatred and brutality have not been reined in during the last fifty years or so.
  What's particularly insidious about deflation is that output doesn't necessarily have to contract for its poison to spread through the economy.
  Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain.
  The poison spread by the BNP will make everyone's lives worse.
  Our silence for long years has encouraged Holocaust deniers, revisionists, baiters and haters to spread their poison.
  Synonyms
  malice, maliciousness, ill will, hate, malevolence, malignity, malignancy, balefulness, embitterment, embitteredness, spite, spitefulness, venom, acrimony, acrimoniousness, rancour

verbˈpoiz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n

[with object]

1Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally.
（故意或偶然）施毒，放毒
someone had tried to poison me
swans are being poisoned by lead from anglers' lines
天鹅正在受到垂钓者鱼线上的铅球的毒害。
Example sentencesExamples
- The real ones are far worse but I dare not mention them lest their owners or fans of the owners come around one night and burn my house down or poison my dog.
- Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person.
- Fears that someone could have been poisoning the rabbits have prompted the investigation after visitors spotted bodies lying about on the ground.
- When more conventional means to control them fails, he devises an elaborate revenge which culminates in his poisoning the dogs.
- Before that two chital or spotted deer were poisoned.
- However, preliminary results indicate that the dogs were poisoned.
- He poisoned his wife in January of that year and was eventually caught on an ocean liner to Canada in the July, becoming the first man to be caught using radio.
- In 1993, he got himself into bother after poisoning the vet's dog.
- Calgary's other local short is Breakfast In Bed by Christopher Hutchens, a bizarre story of a husband who poisons his wife - with a twist.
- He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about.
- Remember when they poisoned rabbits, it was horrible.
- Towards the end, as he's dying of an undefined illness, we realize he picks up chicks by poisoning their pets but acting so super nice and stuff.
- That law will remain in force, only now your duty will be to shoot or poison the fox.
- I knew this and felt guilty about poisoning people with the nicotine.
- A scientist who served seven years in prison for trying to poison his wife has secured a job teaching ethics, university officials said today.
- The dogs were poisoned as they sniffed their way along the beach and disturbed the creature.
- It was written and signed in June 1910 five months after he poisoned his wife.
- A north Cotswold couple are warning pet owners of the dangers of using slug pellets in their gardens after their dog was poisoned.
- One neighbourhood solved the problem by systematically poisoning the stray dogs with pesticides.
- The snake's venom poisoned the wolf and raven's blood.
Synonyms
administer poison to, give poison to
1. 1.1 Adulterate or contaminate (food or drink) with poison.
  对（食物，饮料）下毒，放毒
  Example sentencesExamples
  Anyone could walk in at any time and release a bio-agent that would spread from the chickens to humans, thus poisoning the food supply for who knows how many people.
  A North Yorkshire training company has been chosen to act as a safeguard against terrorists trying to poison the food chain.
  If a barrel of apples contains just one poisoned apple, and you cannot tell outwardly which apple is the poisoned one, you must toss out the entire barrelful.
  The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned.
  I thought for a moment as to whether to eat the food, in case it was poisoned.
  In June 2002, following threats that their food would be poisoned, the men were unable to eat for a period of seven days.
  In other cases, they will eat an egg or pheasant which has been poisoned and put out as bait.
  It's chilling to consider that he felt the world to be so hostile that he believed his food was being poisoned and so stopped eating and so starved to death.
  Society is confronted daily with the anti-human nature of large-scale capitalist farming, which pollutes the environment and poisons the food supply.
  The soul stirs and this awakening then initiates karma or action; a seed is sown for some future effect, for some future fruit, be that a sweet apple or one that is poisoned.
  When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked.
  There are of course chemicals that can be bad if their containers not properly disposed of and there is therefore a risk of contaminating groundwater or poisoning the environment.
  Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned.
  On the Australian mainland, they killed them by giving them poisoned food and clothing contaminated by diseases they had never before experienced.
  Police in India are investigating the death of a Bradford businessman's father after he ate poisoned sweets on a train.
  Michael never cooked, and if he did, the food would probably be poisoned.
  Now, the evidence that I have put to this Court is a complaint to the Commissioner of Police with an analysis from the government department showing that my food had been poisoned.
  Witness how eagerly we accept the idea that our food is being poisoned by the suspect motivations and carelessness of industry, government and science.
  Scary reports are all over the media here in southern California about some nutball who poisoned some baby food.
  Would any other industry be allowed to get away with selling contaminated and poisoned products to consumers and then blame them if they get sick?
  Synonyms
  contaminate, put poison in, adulterate, tamper with, spike, lace, doctor
  pollute, contaminate, taint, foul, befoul, dirty, blight, spoil
2. 1.2usually as adjective poisoned Treat (a weapon or missile) with poison in order to augment its lethal effect.
  在（武器，投射物）上涂毒
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was especially wary of them this time, now that I knew their swords were poisoned, and dodged them as they attempted to advance on me.
  These they hunt with blowpipes made from hardwood, from which they can shoot poisoned darts great distances with amazing accuracy.
  Shamans say its very breath has power, and that the sound it utters when it gasps can send poisoned darts flying, as from a blowgun.
  Duke Kingston developed a fever on their way back to the castle, and they soon figured out that the arrows had been poisoned.
  This plan calls for Hamlet and Laertes to have a mock sword fight, but Laertes will be using a real poisoned sword.
  He was focusing more on the men who were standing behind Aric, about to shoot poisoned arrows, no less, at the king.
  That was easy, only three hundred poisoned darts were aimed at the traveler as he passed.
  During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned.
  I learned how to poison arrows, and how to set explosives in them.
  But if someone made the effort to poison the arrow, it probably isn't a very good sign.
  But this is still not all there is in combat, as you can poison your weapons or arrows to do even more damage.
  The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows.
3. 1.3 Prove harmful or destructive to.
  〈喻〉荼毒，毒化；破坏
  his disgust had poisoned his attitude toward everyone
  他的厌恶之情毒化了他对每个人的态度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere.
  I believe their parents are definitely opposed to their daughters' stance, and may possibly be ready to sue the producer for poisoning the social atmosphere.
  The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting.
  If getting to young people before attitudes are irredeemably poisoned is the key, then All Saints, the area's secondary school, seemed to be providing a model.
  I don't pretend to be able to explain the bizarre political attitudes now poisoning much of Europe.
  In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it.
  Just the perception of unfairness is often enough to poison the atmosphere.
  What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable.
  This assumption is the opposite of the odium theologicum that too often poisons the atmosphere of the church.
  But I simply cannot remain silent and sit here and listen when a party that is trying to attain power at any cost poisons the relationship between the two peoples of this country.
  The sizeable coaching staff is just one complaint on the list of gripes which is steadily poisoning the atmosphere in Dunfermline these days and fans would be in uproar if yet more back-up was employed.
  Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life.
  And, if your opponent is indeed guilty of abusing those around him: It won't be long before he fatally poisons his campaign with destructive behavior.
  A massive management reshuffle followed the scandal and while the changes poisoned the atmosphere, the newsroom was not tamed.
  It is not just adverse events that can poison a positive working atmosphere.
  We sorted it out, but it poisoned the atmosphere.
  That's definitely poisoning the atmosphere on both sides.
  I can feel the evil being moving closer and poisoning the atmosphere.
  The city's protection of ‘the prefab block’ over private housing is poisoning the atmosphere and becoming a political mood killer.
  The bombings poisoned the political atmosphere and deepened the social divide
  Synonyms
  prejudice, bias, jaundice, colour, embitter, sour, envenom, warp, corrupt, subvert
4. 1.4Chemistry (of a substance) reduce the activity of (a catalyst).
  〔化〕抑制剂
  Example sentencesExamples
  The catalysts are easily poisoned by lead, however, which clogs their reactive surfaces.
  It also poisons the enzyme which converts thyroxine to the more metabolically active T3 hormone.
  And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc.
  The cells worked well initially, but any traces of carbon monoxide in the hydrogen fuel quickly poisoned the catalyst.

Phrases

what's your poison?

informal Used to ask someone what they would like to drink.
〈非正式〉想喝点什么？

Origin

Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draft): from Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio(n-) ‘potion’, related to potare ‘to drink’.

词汇	poison
释义	Definition of poison in English: poison noun ˈpɔɪz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n mass noun 1A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed. he killed himself with poison count noun strong chemical poisons Example sentencesExamples A small amount of the material recovered from the Wood Green premises has tested positive for the presence of ricin poison. Trees could be engineered to grow in polluted landfills and absorb poisons, or even be designed to capture more carbon dioxide, diminishing global warming. The news came as police charged four North African men with terrorism offences following a raid on a flat in London last Sunday which uncovered a quantity of the deadly poison, ricin. He argues that there are dangers in natural foods too, which balance the dangers caused by artificial chemical poisons. There are ways to achieve that sense of the base, the infected, the elemental without necessarily introducing poisons into the environment! Because of ‘chemical drift’ those poisons are carried by the wind into towns and cities. It's arguably the most deadly poison in the world. Only a fool, a joker or a someone attempting suicide will knowingly swallow poison if it is known to be deadly. Local residents see a clear connection between children's illnesses and the poisons that permeate their neighborhood. The idea of using ‘friendly’ bacteria to combat poisons has been around for a number of years and is already used in animals such as pigs and chickens. Nicotine is a strong, fast acting poison and it is usually applied as a 0.5% solution in water. The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence. Homeowners should install a good carbon monoxide detector to make sure none of this deadly poison is present in their homes. Now they will try to discover if someone has been putting poison down to reduce the rabbit population. Modern chemical pesticides are poisons, developed during the second world war, and are used worldwide in agriculture. Having served on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 16 years, she was well aware of government's role in promoting and defending chemical poisons. Second-hand smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, 200 poisons, and over 40 cancer-causing compounds. The green color comes from copper sulphate, a common agricultural poison. Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it. As we've discussed here not long ago, the dilution of the deadly poison is such that I can chug down any amount of homeopathic water and not notice it at all. Synonyms toxin, venom archaic bane rare toxicant 1.1Chemistry A substance that reduces the activity of a catalyst. 〔化〕抑制剂 1.2Physics An additive or impurity in a nuclear reactor that slows a reaction by absorbing neutrons. 〔物理〕中子吸收剂 1.3 Something that has a destructive or corrupting influence. meanwhile he is spreading his poison over the Internet Example sentencesExamples When he first became Director of the Court New Zealand plays were ‘box office poison’. It takes no time at all for them to spread their poison and to implicate others in what they have done, if only by coverup. I've gotta ban that woman from the Net before her poison spreads to everyone! An important reason for this is that those who spread the poison of hatred and brutality have not been reined in during the last fifty years or so. The hearings helped purge the poison from the American body politic. Our silence for long years has encouraged Holocaust deniers, revisionists, baiters and haters to spread their poison. Keynes' dream to overthrow the classical order of Adam Smith was greatly influenced by Marx's poison. We share their concern and resolve to work together to eliminate the monster of fascism injecting and spreading the poison of hate in our society, our country. Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly. This is a poison spreading through the body politic of the country. In this story, Florida itself has been ‘closed,’ the poison of the space program having corrupted the entire state. What's particularly insidious about deflation is that output doesn't necessarily have to contract for its poison to spread through the economy. Would the act required of Hamlet, fulfilled, not spread the poison further? Bradford's Tory council let them book a public room to spread their racist poison. In some cases, of course, they are the same people spreading this poison. Stupid laws contaminate those charged with enforcing them at the first level and then become exponentially more costly as their poison spreads through other layers of the economy. The poison spread by the BNP will make everyone's lives worse. He does not have the means to spread his poison beyond the confines of this small country. By the time he returned to Siler City, however, the poison spread by his original letter was already growing more toxic. Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain. Synonyms malice, maliciousness, ill will, hate, malevolence, malignity, malignancy, balefulness, embitterment, embitteredness, spite, spitefulness, venom, acrimony, acrimoniousness, rancour bad influence, blight, bane, contagion, cancer, canker, corruption, pollution verb ˈpɔɪz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n [with object] 1Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally. （故意或偶然）施毒，放毒 someone had tried to poison me Example sentencesExamples He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about. One neighbourhood solved the problem by systematically poisoning the stray dogs with pesticides. Remember when they poisoned rabbits, it was horrible. Calgary's other local short is Breakfast In Bed by Christopher Hutchens, a bizarre story of a husband who poisons his wife - with a twist. Fears that someone could have been poisoning the rabbits have prompted the investigation after visitors spotted bodies lying about on the ground. The dogs were poisoned as they sniffed their way along the beach and disturbed the creature. That law will remain in force, only now your duty will be to shoot or poison the fox. It was written and signed in June 1910 five months after he poisoned his wife. However, preliminary results indicate that the dogs were poisoned. The real ones are far worse but I dare not mention them lest their owners or fans of the owners come around one night and burn my house down or poison my dog. When more conventional means to control them fails, he devises an elaborate revenge which culminates in his poisoning the dogs. Before that two chital or spotted deer were poisoned. A scientist who served seven years in prison for trying to poison his wife has secured a job teaching ethics, university officials said today. Towards the end, as he's dying of an undefined illness, we realize he picks up chicks by poisoning their pets but acting so super nice and stuff. A north Cotswold couple are warning pet owners of the dangers of using slug pellets in their gardens after their dog was poisoned. He poisoned his wife in January of that year and was eventually caught on an ocean liner to Canada in the July, becoming the first man to be caught using radio. The snake's venom poisoned the wolf and raven's blood. Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person. In 1993, he got himself into bother after poisoning the vet's dog. I knew this and felt guilty about poisoning people with the nicotine. Synonyms administer poison to, give poison to murder 1.1 Adulterate or contaminate with poison. 对（食物，饮料）下毒，放毒 the Amazon basin is being poisoned by the mercury used by gold prospectors Example sentencesExamples Scary reports are all over the media here in southern California about some nutball who poisoned some baby food. When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked. There are of course chemicals that can be bad if their containers not properly disposed of and there is therefore a risk of contaminating groundwater or poisoning the environment. In June 2002, following threats that their food would be poisoned, the men were unable to eat for a period of seven days. If a barrel of apples contains just one poisoned apple, and you cannot tell outwardly which apple is the poisoned one, you must toss out the entire barrelful. It's chilling to consider that he felt the world to be so hostile that he believed his food was being poisoned and so stopped eating and so starved to death. In other cases, they will eat an egg or pheasant which has been poisoned and put out as bait. Police in India are investigating the death of a Bradford businessman's father after he ate poisoned sweets on a train. On the Australian mainland, they killed them by giving them poisoned food and clothing contaminated by diseases they had never before experienced. I thought for a moment as to whether to eat the food, in case it was poisoned. Michael never cooked, and if he did, the food would probably be poisoned. Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned. The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned. A North Yorkshire training company has been chosen to act as a safeguard against terrorists trying to poison the food chain. Witness how eagerly we accept the idea that our food is being poisoned by the suspect motivations and carelessness of industry, government and science. Would any other industry be allowed to get away with selling contaminated and poisoned products to consumers and then blame them if they get sick? Society is confronted daily with the anti-human nature of large-scale capitalist farming, which pollutes the environment and poisons the food supply. Anyone could walk in at any time and release a bio-agent that would spread from the chickens to humans, thus poisoning the food supply for who knows how many people. Now, the evidence that I have put to this Court is a complaint to the Commissioner of Police with an analysis from the government department showing that my food had been poisoned. The soul stirs and this awakening then initiates karma or action; a seed is sown for some future effect, for some future fruit, be that a sweet apple or one that is poisoned. Synonyms contaminate, put poison in, adulterate, tamper with, spike, lace, doctor pollute, contaminate, taint, foul, befoul, dirty, blight, spoil 1.2usually as adjective poisoned Treat (a weapon or missile) with poison in order to augment its lethal effect. 在（武器，投射物）上涂毒 poisoned arrows Example sentencesExamples The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows. I was especially wary of them this time, now that I knew their swords were poisoned, and dodged them as they attempted to advance on me. Shamans say its very breath has power, and that the sound it utters when it gasps can send poisoned darts flying, as from a blowgun. These they hunt with blowpipes made from hardwood, from which they can shoot poisoned darts great distances with amazing accuracy. That was easy, only three hundred poisoned darts were aimed at the traveler as he passed. During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned. But this is still not all there is in combat, as you can poison your weapons or arrows to do even more damage. He was focusing more on the men who were standing behind Aric, about to shoot poisoned arrows, no less, at the king. I learned how to poison arrows, and how to set explosives in them. But if someone made the effort to poison the arrow, it probably isn't a very good sign. This plan calls for Hamlet and Laertes to have a mock sword fight, but Laertes will be using a real poisoned sword. Duke Kingston developed a fever on their way back to the castle, and they soon figured out that the arrows had been poisoned. 1.3 Prove harmful or destructive to. 〈喻〉荼毒，毒化；破坏 his disgust had poisoned his attitude toward everyone 他的厌恶之情毒化了他对每个人的态度。 Example sentencesExamples The sizeable coaching staff is just one complaint on the list of gripes which is steadily poisoning the atmosphere in Dunfermline these days and fans would be in uproar if yet more back-up was employed. I can feel the evil being moving closer and poisoning the atmosphere. What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable. But I simply cannot remain silent and sit here and listen when a party that is trying to attain power at any cost poisons the relationship between the two peoples of this country. The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting. We sorted it out, but it poisoned the atmosphere. This assumption is the opposite of the odium theologicum that too often poisons the atmosphere of the church. I believe their parents are definitely opposed to their daughters' stance, and may possibly be ready to sue the producer for poisoning the social atmosphere. A massive management reshuffle followed the scandal and while the changes poisoned the atmosphere, the newsroom was not tamed. Just the perception of unfairness is often enough to poison the atmosphere. And, if your opponent is indeed guilty of abusing those around him: It won't be long before he fatally poisons his campaign with destructive behavior. It is not just adverse events that can poison a positive working atmosphere. Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere. The bombings poisoned the political atmosphere and deepened the social divide Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life. That's definitely poisoning the atmosphere on both sides. I don't pretend to be able to explain the bizarre political attitudes now poisoning much of Europe. The city's protection of ‘the prefab block’ over private housing is poisoning the atmosphere and becoming a political mood killer. In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it. If getting to young people before attitudes are irredeemably poisoned is the key, then All Saints, the area's secondary school, seemed to be providing a model. Synonyms prejudice, bias, jaundice, colour, embitter, sour, envenom, warp, corrupt, subvert 1.4Chemistry (of a substance) reduce the activity of (a catalyst). 〔化〕抑制剂 Example sentencesExamples The cells worked well initially, but any traces of carbon monoxide in the hydrogen fuel quickly poisoned the catalyst. And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc. It also poisons the enzyme which converts thyroxine to the more metabolically active T3 hormone. The catalysts are easily poisoned by lead, however, which clogs their reactive surfaces. Phrases what's your poison? informal Used to ask someone what they would like to drink. 〈非正式〉想喝点什么？ Derivatives poisoner noun ˈpɔɪz(ə)nəˈpɔɪz(ə)nər Popular, because of its availability, with Victorian poisoners, arsenic also caused some spectacular accidental mass poisonings, notably the Bradford Poisoning. Example sentencesExamples You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator. Enforcement agencies and wildlife groups have formed a special unit to track down poisoners responsible for the ‘mindless killing’ of red kites following their re-introduction in Yorkshire. Capsules derived from mussels and garlic have exceeded the legal food limit for arsenic, traditionally used by poisoners. As a chemist by profession and the granddaughter of a suspected poisoner by circumstance, she is perfectly placed. Origin Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draught): from Old French poison 'magic potion', from Latin potio(n-) 'potion', related to potare 'to drink'. A poison does not necessarily need to be in liquid form, but in early use the word meant a drink or medicine, specifically a potion with a harmful or dangerous ingredient. The source was Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio, also the source of potion (Middle English). The saying one man's meat is another man's poison has been around for centuries and was being described as long ago as 1604 as ‘that old moth-eaten proverb’. A similar idea is found in the work of the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c.94–55 bc): ‘What is food to one person may be bitter poison to others.’ A chalice (Middle English) from Latin calix, ‘cup’, also the source of the botanical calix) is a large cup or goblet, and a poisoned chalice something that seems attractive but is likely to be a source of problems. A poisoned chalice features in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and is the source of our expression. noun.1 phr. Definition of poison in US English: poison nounˈpoiz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n 1A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed. Example sentencesExamples Now they will try to discover if someone has been putting poison down to reduce the rabbit population. Because of ‘chemical drift’ those poisons are carried by the wind into towns and cities. The green color comes from copper sulphate, a common agricultural poison. Local residents see a clear connection between children's illnesses and the poisons that permeate their neighborhood. Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it. Homeowners should install a good carbon monoxide detector to make sure none of this deadly poison is present in their homes. Second-hand smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, 200 poisons, and over 40 cancer-causing compounds. He argues that there are dangers in natural foods too, which balance the dangers caused by artificial chemical poisons. As we've discussed here not long ago, the dilution of the deadly poison is such that I can chug down any amount of homeopathic water and not notice it at all. Only a fool, a joker or a someone attempting suicide will knowingly swallow poison if it is known to be deadly. A small amount of the material recovered from the Wood Green premises has tested positive for the presence of ricin poison. The idea of using ‘friendly’ bacteria to combat poisons has been around for a number of years and is already used in animals such as pigs and chickens. Having served on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 16 years, she was well aware of government's role in promoting and defending chemical poisons. Modern chemical pesticides are poisons, developed during the second world war, and are used worldwide in agriculture. It's arguably the most deadly poison in the world. Nicotine is a strong, fast acting poison and it is usually applied as a 0.5% solution in water. The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence. There are ways to achieve that sense of the base, the infected, the elemental without necessarily introducing poisons into the environment! The news came as police charged four North African men with terrorism offences following a raid on a flat in London last Sunday which uncovered a quantity of the deadly poison, ricin. Trees could be engineered to grow in polluted landfills and absorb poisons, or even be designed to capture more carbon dioxide, diminishing global warming. Synonyms toxin, venom 1.1Chemistry A substance that reduces the activity of a catalyst. 〔化〕抑制剂 1.2Physics An additive or impurity in a nuclear reactor that slows a reaction by absorbing neutrons. 〔物理〕中子吸收剂 1.3 A person, idea, action, or situation that is considered to have a destructive or corrupting effect or influence. 有毒害（或危险）的人（或观点、行为、情况） meanwhile he is spreading his poison over the Internet Example sentencesExamples We share their concern and resolve to work together to eliminate the monster of fascism injecting and spreading the poison of hate in our society, our country. By the time he returned to Siler City, however, the poison spread by his original letter was already growing more toxic. Would the act required of Hamlet, fulfilled, not spread the poison further? The hearings helped purge the poison from the American body politic. This is a poison spreading through the body politic of the country. It takes no time at all for them to spread their poison and to implicate others in what they have done, if only by coverup. Keynes' dream to overthrow the classical order of Adam Smith was greatly influenced by Marx's poison. I've gotta ban that woman from the Net before her poison spreads to everyone! Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly. In some cases, of course, they are the same people spreading this poison. Stupid laws contaminate those charged with enforcing them at the first level and then become exponentially more costly as their poison spreads through other layers of the economy. In this story, Florida itself has been ‘closed,’ the poison of the space program having corrupted the entire state. He does not have the means to spread his poison beyond the confines of this small country. Bradford's Tory council let them book a public room to spread their racist poison. When he first became Director of the Court New Zealand plays were ‘box office poison’. An important reason for this is that those who spread the poison of hatred and brutality have not been reined in during the last fifty years or so. What's particularly insidious about deflation is that output doesn't necessarily have to contract for its poison to spread through the economy. Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain. The poison spread by the BNP will make everyone's lives worse. Our silence for long years has encouraged Holocaust deniers, revisionists, baiters and haters to spread their poison. Synonyms malice, maliciousness, ill will, hate, malevolence, malignity, malignancy, balefulness, embitterment, embitteredness, spite, spitefulness, venom, acrimony, acrimoniousness, rancour verbˈpoiz(ə)nˈpɔɪz(ə)n [with object] 1Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally. （故意或偶然）施毒，放毒 someone had tried to poison me swans are being poisoned by lead from anglers' lines 天鹅正在受到垂钓者鱼线上的铅球的毒害。 Example sentencesExamples The real ones are far worse but I dare not mention them lest their owners or fans of the owners come around one night and burn my house down or poison my dog. Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person. Fears that someone could have been poisoning the rabbits have prompted the investigation after visitors spotted bodies lying about on the ground. When more conventional means to control them fails, he devises an elaborate revenge which culminates in his poisoning the dogs. Before that two chital or spotted deer were poisoned. However, preliminary results indicate that the dogs were poisoned. He poisoned his wife in January of that year and was eventually caught on an ocean liner to Canada in the July, becoming the first man to be caught using radio. In 1993, he got himself into bother after poisoning the vet's dog. Calgary's other local short is Breakfast In Bed by Christopher Hutchens, a bizarre story of a husband who poisons his wife - with a twist. He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about. Remember when they poisoned rabbits, it was horrible. Towards the end, as he's dying of an undefined illness, we realize he picks up chicks by poisoning their pets but acting so super nice and stuff. That law will remain in force, only now your duty will be to shoot or poison the fox. I knew this and felt guilty about poisoning people with the nicotine. A scientist who served seven years in prison for trying to poison his wife has secured a job teaching ethics, university officials said today. The dogs were poisoned as they sniffed their way along the beach and disturbed the creature. It was written and signed in June 1910 five months after he poisoned his wife. A north Cotswold couple are warning pet owners of the dangers of using slug pellets in their gardens after their dog was poisoned. One neighbourhood solved the problem by systematically poisoning the stray dogs with pesticides. The snake's venom poisoned the wolf and raven's blood. Synonyms administer poison to, give poison to 1.1 Adulterate or contaminate (food or drink) with poison. 对（食物，饮料）下毒，放毒 Example sentencesExamples Anyone could walk in at any time and release a bio-agent that would spread from the chickens to humans, thus poisoning the food supply for who knows how many people. A North Yorkshire training company has been chosen to act as a safeguard against terrorists trying to poison the food chain. If a barrel of apples contains just one poisoned apple, and you cannot tell outwardly which apple is the poisoned one, you must toss out the entire barrelful. The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned. I thought for a moment as to whether to eat the food, in case it was poisoned. In June 2002, following threats that their food would be poisoned, the men were unable to eat for a period of seven days. In other cases, they will eat an egg or pheasant which has been poisoned and put out as bait. It's chilling to consider that he felt the world to be so hostile that he believed his food was being poisoned and so stopped eating and so starved to death. Society is confronted daily with the anti-human nature of large-scale capitalist farming, which pollutes the environment and poisons the food supply. The soul stirs and this awakening then initiates karma or action; a seed is sown for some future effect, for some future fruit, be that a sweet apple or one that is poisoned. When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked. There are of course chemicals that can be bad if their containers not properly disposed of and there is therefore a risk of contaminating groundwater or poisoning the environment. Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned. On the Australian mainland, they killed them by giving them poisoned food and clothing contaminated by diseases they had never before experienced. Police in India are investigating the death of a Bradford businessman's father after he ate poisoned sweets on a train. Michael never cooked, and if he did, the food would probably be poisoned. Now, the evidence that I have put to this Court is a complaint to the Commissioner of Police with an analysis from the government department showing that my food had been poisoned. Witness how eagerly we accept the idea that our food is being poisoned by the suspect motivations and carelessness of industry, government and science. Scary reports are all over the media here in southern California about some nutball who poisoned some baby food. Would any other industry be allowed to get away with selling contaminated and poisoned products to consumers and then blame them if they get sick? Synonyms contaminate, put poison in, adulterate, tamper with, spike, lace, doctor pollute, contaminate, taint, foul, befoul, dirty, blight, spoil 1.2usually as adjective poisoned Treat (a weapon or missile) with poison in order to augment its lethal effect. 在（武器，投射物）上涂毒 Example sentencesExamples I was especially wary of them this time, now that I knew their swords were poisoned, and dodged them as they attempted to advance on me. These they hunt with blowpipes made from hardwood, from which they can shoot poisoned darts great distances with amazing accuracy. Shamans say its very breath has power, and that the sound it utters when it gasps can send poisoned darts flying, as from a blowgun. Duke Kingston developed a fever on their way back to the castle, and they soon figured out that the arrows had been poisoned. This plan calls for Hamlet and Laertes to have a mock sword fight, but Laertes will be using a real poisoned sword. He was focusing more on the men who were standing behind Aric, about to shoot poisoned arrows, no less, at the king. That was easy, only three hundred poisoned darts were aimed at the traveler as he passed. During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned. I learned how to poison arrows, and how to set explosives in them. But if someone made the effort to poison the arrow, it probably isn't a very good sign. But this is still not all there is in combat, as you can poison your weapons or arrows to do even more damage. The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows. 1.3 Prove harmful or destructive to. 〈喻〉荼毒，毒化；破坏 his disgust had poisoned his attitude toward everyone 他的厌恶之情毒化了他对每个人的态度。 Example sentencesExamples Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere. I believe their parents are definitely opposed to their daughters' stance, and may possibly be ready to sue the producer for poisoning the social atmosphere. The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting. If getting to young people before attitudes are irredeemably poisoned is the key, then All Saints, the area's secondary school, seemed to be providing a model. I don't pretend to be able to explain the bizarre political attitudes now poisoning much of Europe. In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it. Just the perception of unfairness is often enough to poison the atmosphere. What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable. This assumption is the opposite of the odium theologicum that too often poisons the atmosphere of the church. But I simply cannot remain silent and sit here and listen when a party that is trying to attain power at any cost poisons the relationship between the two peoples of this country. The sizeable coaching staff is just one complaint on the list of gripes which is steadily poisoning the atmosphere in Dunfermline these days and fans would be in uproar if yet more back-up was employed. Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life. And, if your opponent is indeed guilty of abusing those around him: It won't be long before he fatally poisons his campaign with destructive behavior. A massive management reshuffle followed the scandal and while the changes poisoned the atmosphere, the newsroom was not tamed. It is not just adverse events that can poison a positive working atmosphere. We sorted it out, but it poisoned the atmosphere. That's definitely poisoning the atmosphere on both sides. I can feel the evil being moving closer and poisoning the atmosphere. The city's protection of ‘the prefab block’ over private housing is poisoning the atmosphere and becoming a political mood killer. The bombings poisoned the political atmosphere and deepened the social divide Synonyms prejudice, bias, jaundice, colour, embitter, sour, envenom, warp, corrupt, subvert 1.4Chemistry (of a substance) reduce the activity of (a catalyst). 〔化〕抑制剂 Example sentencesExamples The catalysts are easily poisoned by lead, however, which clogs their reactive surfaces. It also poisons the enzyme which converts thyroxine to the more metabolically active T3 hormone. And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc. The cells worked well initially, but any traces of carbon monoxide in the hydrogen fuel quickly poisoned the catalyst. Phrases what's your poison? informal Used to ask someone what they would like to drink. 〈非正式〉想喝点什么？ Origin Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draft): from Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio(n-) ‘potion’, related to potare ‘to drink’. noun.1 phr.
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