Definition of Poison

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Poison

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.

That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.

To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.

To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.

To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.

To act as, or convey, a poison.

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Poison Quotations

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
Edward Kennedy

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Poison Translations

poison in Danish is gift, forgifte
poison in Dutch is vergallen, vergeven, vergiftigen
poison in French is intoxiquer, venin, poison
poison in German is vergiften, Gift, Gift
poison in Italian is veleno, avvelenare
poison in Latin is venenum
poison in Norwegian is gift
poison in Portuguese is veneno
poison in Spanish is veneno, tosigo, intoxicar

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