Usually means: Substance causing harm or death.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word poison:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. poison: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poison: Merriam-Webster
  3. poison: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poison: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poison: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poison: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poison, poison: Wordnik
  8. poison: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poison: Wiktionary
  10. poison: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poison: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poison: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Poison, poison: Dictionary.com
  14. poison: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. poison: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Poison: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. poison: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. poison: Rhymezone
  20. poison, poison (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. poison: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Poison: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. poison: FreeDictionary.org
  24. poison: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. poison: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. poison: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poison: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. poison: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poison: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. poison: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Poison: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. poison: Medical dictionary
  6. Poison: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. poison: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poison: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poison: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. poison, poison: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. poison: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Poison: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. poison: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See poisoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
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.

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