From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poison \Poi"son\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Poisoned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poisoning}.] [Cf. OF. poisonner, F. empoissoner, L. potionare to give to drink. See {Poison}, noun]
1. To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink. ''The ingredients of our poisoned chalice.'' --Shak.
2. To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
If you poison us, do we not die ? --Shak.
3. To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
Whispering tongues can poison truth. --Coleridge.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "poisoned": activated, autoluminescent, bad, cankered, charged, contaminated, diseased, gangrened, gangrenous, hot, infected, irradiated, morbid, mortified, pathological, peccant, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, septic, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous
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