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poison
Noun
  • A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
  • Something that harms a person or thing.
  • A drink; liquor. informal
Verb
  • To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody transitive
  • To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous transitive
  • To cause something to become much worse transitive
  • To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions transitive