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▸ noun: (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
▸ noun: (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
▸ noun: (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
▸ verb: (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
▸ verb: (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
▸ verb: (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
Similar:
envenom,
toxicant,
poison gas,
intoxicant,
antipoison,
counterpoison,
black pill,
toxin,
rat poison,
venomer,
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Types:
arsenic,
cyanide,
strychnine,
mercury,
lead,
botulinum toxin,
ricin,
snake venom,
spider venom,
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