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Definition of poisonamerika in Turkish English dictionary
- poison
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism
We used a poison to kill the weeds.
- To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
The assassin poisoned the king.
- Something that harms a person or thing
Gossip is a malicious poison.
- {v} to infect with poison, to corrupt
- If you are poisoned by a substance, it makes you very ill and sometimes kills you. Employees were taken to hospital yesterday after being poisoned by fumes Toxic waste could endanger lives and poison fish. + poisoning poi·son·ing His illness was initially diagnosed as food poisoning
- Any substance that is injurious to health and may lead to death when relatively small amounts are taken either internally or externally
- a chemical that adversely affects health by causing injury, illness, or death
- Any molecule or material that tends to collect on a catalyst surface, blocking access to active sites or destroying their activities
- If someone poisons another person, they kill the person or make them ill by giving them poison. The rumours that she had poisoned him could never be proved. + poisoning poi·son·ing She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder
- administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"
- Term applied to loss of grain refining induced by certain elements, particularly Zr on TiBAl
- add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"
- the ability of a chemical, such that very small amounts are able to produce injury to susceptible tissues by a chemical action
- To poison water, air, or land means to damage it with harmful substances such as chemicals. The land has been completely poisoned by chemicals. dying forests, poisoned rivers and lakes
- kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband"
- (1) any substance that causes injury, illness, or death, especially by chemical means; (2) a substance that inhibits or retards a chemical reaction
- That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin
- 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
- If someone poisons a food, drink, or weapon, they add poison to it so that it can be used to kill someone. If I was your wife I would poison your coffee. + poisoned poi·soned He was terrified to eat, suspecting that the food was poisoned. an umbrella tipped with a poisoned dart