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Definition: Poison |
PoisonNoun1. Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism. 2. Anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism". Verb1. Spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office". 2. Kill by its poison: "This mushrooms can kill". 3. Kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband". 4. Add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her". 5. Administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poison" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Aerospace | In a nuclear reactor, those atoms (of such elements as boron) other than fuel that have large capture cross section for thermal neutrons. In capturing thermal neutrons unproductively, these atoms decrease the number available to cause fission. (references) |
Bible | Poison (1.) Heb. hemah, "heat," the poison of certain venomous reptiles (Deut. 32:24, 33; Job 6:4; Ps. 58:4), causing inflammation. (2.) Heb. rosh, "a head," a poisonous plant (Deut. 29:18), growing luxuriantly (Hos. 10:4), of a bitter taste (Ps. 69:21; Lam. 3:5), and coupled with wormwood; probably the poppy. This word is rendered "gall", q.v., (Deut. 29:18; 32:33; Ps. 69:21; Jer. 8:14, etc.), "hemlock" (Hos. 10:4; Amos 6:12), and "poison" (Job 20:16), "the poison of asps," showing that the _rosh_ was not exclusively a vegetable poison. (3.) In Rom. 3:13 (comp. Job 20:16; Ps. 140:3), James 3:8, as the rendering of the Greek ios. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To fed that you are poisoned in a dream, denotes that some painful influence will immediately reach you. If you seek to use poison on others, you will be guilty of base thoughts, or the world will go wrong for you. For a young woman to dream that she endeavors to rid herself of a rival in this way, she will be likely to have a deal of trouble in securing a lover. To throw the poison away, denotes that by sheer force you will overcome unsatisfactory conditions. To handle poison, or see others with it, signifies that unpleasantness will surround you. To dream that your relatives or children are poisoned, you will receive injury from unsuspected sources. If an enemy or rival is poisoned, you will overcome obstacles. To recover from the effects of poison, indicates that you will succeed after worry. To take strychnine or other poisonous medicine under the advice of a physician, denotes that you will undertake some affair fraught with danger. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Poison It is said that poisons had no effect on Mithridates, King of Pontus. This was Mithridates VI., called the Great, who succeeded his father at the age of eleven, and fortified his constitution by drinking antidotes to poisons which might at any moment be administered to him by persons about the court. (See Aqua Tofana .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | A substance which after entrance into the body by any means in relatively small quantities may damage some bodily structure or disturb a function. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A generic term for any substance that can cause harm and toxic effects on an organism. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause injury, illness, or death to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale. Some poisons are also toxins, and a distinction between the two terms is not always observed, even among scientists. The derivative forms "toxic" and "poisonous" are synonomous. Within chemistry and physics, a poison is a substance that obstructs or inhibits a reaction, for example by binding to a catalyst.
Biological poisoning
Contact or absorption of poisons can cause rapid death or impairment. Agents that act on the nervous system can paralyze in seconds or less, and include both biologically derived neurotoxins and so-called nerve gases, which may be synthesized for warfare or industry. Inhaled or ingested cyanide almost instantly starves the body of energy by poisoning mitochondria and the synthesis of ATP. Intravenous injection of an unnaturally high concentration of potassium chloride, such as in the execution of prisoners in parts of the United States, quickly stops the heart by eliminating the cell potential necessary for muscle contraction. Such rapid reactions are often called acute poisoning.
A poison may also act slowly. This is known as chronic poisoning and is most common for poisons that bioaccumulate. Examples of these types of poisons are mercury, lead, and asbestos.
Many substances regarded as poisons are toxic only indirectly. An example is "wood alcohol" or methanol, which is not poisonous itself, but is chemically converted to toxic formaldehyde in the liver. Many drug molecules are made toxic in the liver, and the genetic variability of certain liver enzymes makes the toxicity of many compounds differ between one individual and the next.
The study of the symptoms, mechanisms, treatment and diagnosis of biological poisoning is known as toxicology.
Examples of biological poisons
Non-radioactive inorganic poisons
Radioactive inorganic poisons
- Elemental metals
- beryllium
- cadmium
- lead
- thallium
- mercury
- Elemental metalloids
- arsenic
- Elemental nonmetals
- fluorine
- chlorine
- bromine
- Arsenic compounds
- arsenic trioxide
- Fowler's solution
- ammonia
Organic poisons
- Elemental gases
- Radon
- Elemental metals
- Plutonium
- Polonium
- Radium
- Strontium 90 - See Nuclear fallout
- Uranium
- Americium
Naturally produced posions and toxins
- cyanides
- potassium cyanide
- hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid)
- carbon monoxide
- ethanol
- methanol
- formaldehyde
- Microorganisms
- botulin toxin
- Tetrodotoxin
- alkaloids
- solanine
- atropine
- hyoscyamine
- aconite
- strychnine
- snake and spider venoms
- curare
- digitoxin
- digoxin
- domoic acid (or Amnesic Shellfish Poison, ASP)
- Mushroom toxins
- amanita toxin, see Amanita phalloides
- muscarine
- ricin
- Ciguatera poisoning
- Shellfish toxins (PSP, DSP, NSP, ASP )
- Scombroid poisoning
- Aflatoxins
- oubain
- Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- Phytohaemagglutinin (Red kidney bean poisoning)
- Grayanotoxin (Honey intoxication)
Famous poisonings
- Charles Darwin (Claimed only by rumor: self-medication with Fowler's solution, one percent potassium arsenite)
- Jamestown colonists Standard historical accounts claim deaths by starvation, but the possibility of arsenic poisoning by rat poison (or of death by Bubonic plague) has also been reported (see http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets2/case3_clues.html).
- Jonestown inhabitants died from a poisoned drink in a mass sucide/murder: see Jonestown mass suicide
- Clare Boothe Luce (Did not die of her poisoning) See Arsenic
- Georgi Markov (Assassinated in London by KGB agents with ricin)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Claimed only by rumor: killed by someone on his staff; however, arsenic was measured but not found in his hair after his death)
- Socrates According to Plato, killed by drinking Hemlock (water hemlock, not hemlock the evergreen tree)
- Alan Turing Apparently committed suicide by painting apple with Cyanide and taking a bite.
Poisons in crime fiction
This is of course an inexhaustive list. You may wish to add other novels and/or specify the poisons used.
Novels:
Films:
- Anthony Berkeley: The Poisoned Chocolates Case
- Francis Iles: Before the Fact (filmed as Suspicion)
- Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought
- Agatha Christie: Three Act Tragedy
- Agatha Christie: A Pocket Full of Rye
- Agatha Christie: Crooked House
- Dorothy Sayers: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- Dorothy Sayers: Strong Poison
- Cornell Woolrich: Waltz into Darkness (filmed as Mississippi Mermaid and Original Sin)
- Joseph Kesselring: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
See Also venom --toxicity -- Antidote -- Mithridates VI of Pontus -- Pollutant -- Lethal injection --Toxicity rating -- biosecurity -- Lead poisoning--skull and crossbones.
- D.O.A. (1950 movie)
Poison is also the name of a US rock band active in the 1980s and 1990s. For more information, see Poison.
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Poison was an American hair metal band originally known as Paris. Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rockett and C.C. Deville signed to Enigma Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Their debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In was a success that included three hits, "I Want Action", "Talk Dirty to Me" and "I Won't Forget You". As successful as Look What the Cat Dragged In was, 1988's (see 1988 in music) Open Up & Say...Ahhh was a major success that included ''Every Rose has its Thorn", the band's biggest hit.Poison's third album was just as successful, Flesh and Blood (1990) launched two big hits, including "Unskinny Bop" and "Something to Believe In". Drug and personality problems were tearing the band apart, and Deville was soon fired and replaced by Rickie Kotzen. Native Tongue (1993) got generally positive reviews, but sales were sluggish. Blues Saraceno soon replaced Kotzen, and he was then replaced by Deville's return for a 1996 (see 1996 in music) reunion. Some recordings and tours followed, though Poison was no longer widely popular or on the cutting edge of music.
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Poison Pokémon are a certain type of Pokémon, including the following:
This list will be expanded as more Pokémon entries are created on Wikipedia.
- Basic Pokémon
- Bulbasaur
- Weedle
- Stage 1 Pokémon
- Ivysaur
- Kakuna
- Stage 2 Pokémon
- Beedrill
- Venusaur
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Roach bait describes the most effective methods used to kill roaches, ones that function on viral principles. Roach Motels are one example. Since roaches actually live in nests, it isn't enough to simply kill the one or two roaches that happen to wander into a trap, as plenty of others won't. Even if you kill all the adult roaches outside the nest, some live eggs will remain in the nest and eventually hatch, which will leave you with the same problem you had before.So, in order to kill the nest, Roach Motels don't trap individual roaches. Instead they lure roaches in, let them eat a pleasant tasting morsel of concentrated slow acting poison, and let them out. Slow acting contact poison with a lure in the middle will also do the job. Soon that roach dies but that poison remains in (or on) its body, which the other roaches soon eat, and become poisoned as well. In this way, each roach not only becomes a dead roach crawling, but also acts like a Typhoid Mary to the other roaches. Eventually the nest fills up with poisonous carcasses, turning the nest itself into a death trap.
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Synonyms: PoisonSynonyms: poisonous substance (n), envenom (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Poison, toxin; teratogen; leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest. |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
Insalubrity | Noun: insalubrity; unhealthiness; Adjective:; nonnaturals; plague spot; malaria; (poison); death in the pot, contagion; toxicity. |
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Screenplays | A poison kiss (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I draw you out Saruman as poison is drawn from a wound (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Wonderful for poison pen letters (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.) And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) | |
Lyrics | The buzz of this poison is taking me higher (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi) They put some poison into his wine (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) Well, If you've gots the poison, I've gots the remedy (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ) At paranoia's poison door (21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pretty Poison (1968) Poison Ivy Picnic (1953) Another Man's Poison (1952) La Poison (1951) | |
Song Titles | Every Rose Has Its Thorn (performing artist: Poison) Something To Believe In (performing artist: Poison) Unskinny Bop (performing artist: Poison) Catch Me (I'm Falling) (performing artist: Pretty Poison) | |
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 | Poison hairs covering this caterpillar can inflict a painful sting. Credit: CDC. |  | Leaves in threes characterize poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans. This plant is common in the eastern United States. Credit: CDC. |
 | Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly. They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreading the plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes the mangroves. The red berries are beautiful but toxic; direct contact with them causes a poison ivy-like rash. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Beach grass, poison ivy, rosy mucosa, and cat-tails. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Poison Ivy next to Madison River. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Exploring patch of poison hemlock in bloom (noxious weed) by river bank in Albuquerque Field Office jurisdiction, New Mexico. Credit: Eddy Williams. |
 | After the poison is collected, the next stage in the production of anti-snakebite serum is dehydration with a vacuum pump. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |  | Dehydration turns the snake poison into very fine yellowish crystals ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |
 | Farmers spreading poison grasshopper bait, Richland County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Placing poison in the cricket traps. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Poison Oak Leaves" by Stephanie Summerfield Commentary: "Some beautiful fall pictures..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Adam Smith | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. |
Henry Brooks Adams | Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. |
Lucretius | What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The surest poison is time. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. |
St. Bernard | Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. |
William Blake | Expect poison from standing water. |
| The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security? for the people having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end, but that they might always be freely chosen, and so chosen, freely act, and advise, as the necessity of the common-wealth, and the public good should, upon examination, and mature debate, be judged to require. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The nineteenth century is poison. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The poison tongue of Satan had done its work |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use poison baits, powders, gels, or paste (for example, boric acid). (references) | |
Paul. In Boston during the first three quarters of 2000, MDMA was the most frequently mentioned drug in telephone calls to the Poison Control Center. (references) | ||
In Miami, one of the first sites of Rohypnol abuse, poison control centers report an increase in withdrawal seizures among people addicted to Rohypnol. (references) | ||
Business | Less than half of rural enterprises meet national dust and poison standards. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | According to the report, a traditional court tried the accused by requiring them to drink poison that traditionally is believed to kill only those who lie to the court, convicted the accused when they refused to drink, ordered them to pay in-kind, blood-price damages, and expelled them from the locality when they refused to pay. (references) |
Economic History | Belgium | Belgian corporate legislation was changed in 1990 to prevent golden parachutes as well as poison pills and other techniques used to block corporate raiders. (references) |
Human Rights | Jamaica | A post-mortem examination of the three showed no evidence of poison. (references) |
Trade | Armenia | These restrictions include required authorization for weapons, components used in the production of weapons, explosives, nuclear materials, poison, narcotics, strong psychotropic substances, devices for use in opium smoking, and pornographic materials. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | In other sectors, less than half of rural enterprises meet national dust and poison standards. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last year, the Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention to protect our soldiers and citizens from poison gas. |
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| "Poison" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.12% of the time. "Poison" is used about 921 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.12% | 793 | 8,741 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.36% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.3% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 921 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "poison". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Achshaph | N/A | Biblical | Poison |
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Expressions using "poison": Acrid poison ♦ burnable poison ♦ bushman's poison ♦ Cumulative poison ♦ deadly poison ♦ dogwood poison bush ♦ eastern poison oak ♦ Ellangowan poison bush ♦ European Association of Poison Control Centers ♦ fly poison ♦ gadolinium oxide burnable poison ♦ hate like poison ♦ lethal dose of poison ♦ murder by poison ♦ one man's meat is another man's poison ♦ poison arrow ♦ poison arrow plant ♦ poison ash ♦ poison bag ♦ poison bush ♦ poison camas ♦ Poison Control Centers ♦ poison cup ♦ poison cupboard ♦ poison dogwood ♦ poison elder ♦ poison fang ♦ poison gas ♦ poison gland ♦ poison hemlock ♦ poison injection ♦ poison injection system ♦ poison ivy ♦ poison mercury ♦ poison milkweed ♦ poison nut ♦ poison oak ♦ poison parsley ♦ poison parsnip ♦ poison pea ♦ poison pen ♦ poison pen letter ♦ poison pill ♦ poison sac ♦ poison sign ♦ poison sumac ♦ rat poison ♦ snake poison ♦ South American poison toad ♦ stomach poison ♦ western poison oak ♦ what's your poison ♦ zebra poison. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "poison": poison-arrow, poison-bearing, poison-fang, poison-fed, poison-filled, poison-gas, poison-gassed, poison-pen, poison-pill, poison-producing, poison-spurs, poison-taking, poison-tipped, poison-tongued, poison-tree. | |
Ending with "poison": arrow-poison, contact-poison, rat-poison, taste-poison. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
poison ivy | 7,371 | pill poison | 125 |
poison | 3,088 | poison plant | 120 |
poison oak | 1,806 | poison ivy plant | 111 |
poison sumac | 570 | food poison | 106 |
poison ivy picture | 559 | ivy picture poison rash | 105 |
poison ivy treatment | 508 | poison arrow frog | 101 |
poison the well | 482 | poison ivy poison oak poison sumac | 96 |
poison control | 478 | home remedy for poison ivy | 86 |
sun poison | 280 | poison music | 86 |
poison ivy cure | 228 | ivy photo poison | 84 |
lyrics poison well | 218 | dog poison | 79 |
poison control center | 215 | poison ivy symptom | 76 |
poison dart frog | 207 | poison ivey | 75 |
poison ivy remedy | 205 | poison ivy oak sumac | 74 |
poison ivy ii | 184 | poison oak treatment | 71 |
picture poison oak | 180 | poison concert | 70 |
poison the band | 179 | poison snake | 70 |
poison lyrics | 174 | poison rock band | 68 |
poison ivy rash | 163 | picture poison sumac | 66 |
rat poison | 140 | poison ivy batman | 65 |
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| Language | Translations for "poison"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | helm (bane, caustic, causticity, gall, toxic, venom). (various references) | |
Arabic | سم الثعبان, سم (bane, damp, pore, venom), زعاف سم (deadly). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | saa'kssoyaa'tsis (poison ivy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам отрова в (empoison), вреден поглътител, отровен (gassed, nocuous, poisonous, toxic, venomous, viperous), отрова (aconite, bane, venom, virus), отравям (blight, embitter, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, unearth), намалявам действието на, заразявам (communicate, contaminate, defile, infect, plague, stuff), инфектирам (infect). (various references) | |
Catalan | verí. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蠱 (insanity), 毒物, 毒品 (drugs, narcotics), 毒 . (various references) | |
Czech | zkazit (make a hash of, pull down, spoil, unsettle), otrava (bitch, bore, bother, business, chore, drag, nark, pain, pest, spoilsport, tedium), otrávit (disgust, empoison, envenom, frustrate, pip, taint), nakazit (infect), jed (venom). (various references) | |
Danish | gift (married), forgifte. (various references) | |
Dutch | vergiftigen, vergif (poisons, toxic agent, toxin), vergeven (absolve, forgive, pardon), vergallen, gif (graphic interchange format, poisons, toxic agent, toxin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | veneno, veneni. (various references) | |
Faeroese | eitur, eitra. (various references) | |
Farsi | مسموم کردن (Venom), سمی (Poisonous, Toxic, Venomous), سم (Hoof, Nail, Venom), زهرالود (Baneful), زهر (Venom), شرنگ . (various references) | |
Finnish | myrkky (toxin, venom). (various references) | |
French | poison, venin, intoxiquer. (various references) | |
Frisian | fergif. (various references) | |
German | Gift (bane, toxin, venom), vergiften (contaminate, drug, embitter, intoxicate, pollute, to poison). (various references) | |
Greek | δηλητήριο (arsenic, bane, toxin, venom, virus), δηλητηριάζω (envenom). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | helm. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ארס (venom). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méreg (anger, bane, bate, bother, spunk, toxic, toxin, venom). (various references) | |
Icelandic | eitur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | racun (bane, toxicant, venom), bisa (be able, can, should). (various references) | |
Italian | veleno (bane, ptomaine, toxin, venom), avvelenare (envenom). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薬殺 , ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), 毒薬 , 毒物 , 毒害 , 毒 (toxicant), 害毒 (harm, injury, mischief, virus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいどく (harm, injury, mischief, virus), ポイズン , どくがい, どくぶつ, どくやく, どく (to recede, to retreat, to withdraw, toxicant), やくさつ (strangulation). (various references) | |
Korean | 독. (various references) | |
Manx | pyshooney, pyshoon (venom), nieuaghey (poisoning), nieu (toxaemia, toxic, venom, venomousness, virus), cur nieu da. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gift (married). (various references) | |
Papiamen | venenu, veneno, venená. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oisonpay.(various references) | |
Polish | trucizna. (various references) | |
Portuguese | veneno (bane, venom, virus), tóxico (intoxicant, noxious, poisonous, toxic, toxicant), peçonha (venom, virus), intoxicar (intoxicate), envenenar (bane, empoison, envenom). (various references) | |
Romanian | venin (bitterness, fury, rage, spite, venom), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, strangle, suffocate), se otrãvi, otravã (bait, bane, bitterness, venom), otrãvi (corrupt, embitter, empoison, envenom, infect), intoxica, infecta (attaint, canker, contaminate, corrupt, infect, rankle, taint), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, pie, rabble, shuffle, temper, work), învenina (embitter, empoison, envenom). (various references) | |
Russian | яд (black bottle, toxic, toxin, venom), отрава (aconite, bane), отравляющий (asphyxiant), отравлять яд, отравлять (embitter, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, taint). (various references) | |
Scottish | puinsean , puision, puinsean, nimh (poison. See <A HREF="mf09.html#neimh">neimh</A>), neimh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatrovati, trovati, otrovati (empoison), otrovan (envenomed, nocuous, poisonous, toxic, toxicant, venomous, viperous), otrov (bane, hemlock, toxicant, toxin, venom). (various references) | |
Spanish | veneno (bane, venom), intoxicar (intoxicate), envenenar (bane, embitter, empoison, envenom). (various references) | |
Swedish | gift (hemlock, married, toxin, venom, virus, wedded), förgifta (drug, envenom, infect). (various references) | |
Tagalog | láson. (various references) | |
Turkish | zehirlemek (empoison, envenom), zehir vermek, zehir katmak (envenom), zehir (hemlock, venom), zehír, içki (alcohol, alcoholic drink, booze, bottle, drink, drinking, hooch, juice, liquor, potation, quencher, rum, stimulant, wet), aşı (graft, inoculation, jab, shot, vaccinal, vaccination, vaccine), ağı. (various references) | |
Turkmen | awy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, filth, pervert, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), трутина, отруювати (bane, disease, empoison, envenom, intoxicate), отрута (atter, bane, toxic, toxicant, venom, virus), заражати (canker, contaminate, infect, taint). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chất độc (toxicant). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwenwyno (be jealous, fret), gwenwyn (jealousy, venom). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | venenum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vish. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | poison. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 16, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OfeiV arousin kan qanasimon ti piwsin ou mh autouV blayei epi arrwstouV ceiraV epiqhsousin kai kalwV exousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Serpentes tollent et si mortiferum quid biberint non eos nocebit super aegrotos manus inponent et bene habebunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & naddren be-nemed. & gyf he deadlicedrenc drinced ne mag he heom derigen.& gyf hye uppen seocen here hande asetteð þe bet heom scel wurðe. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei schulen do awei serpentis; and if thei drynke ony venym, it schal not noye hem. Thei schulen sette her hondis on sijk men, and thei schulen wexe hoole. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And shall kyll serpentes. And yf they drinke eny dedly thinge yt shall not hurte the. They shall laye their hondes on ye sicke and they shall recover. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 16, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | makakupot silag mga bitin, ug kon makainom silag bisan unsa nga makahilo, dili sila mangadaut; ang mga masakiton pagapandongan nila sa ilang mga kamot, ug mangaayo sila." |
| Croatian | zmije uzimati; i popiju li što smrtonosno, ne, neæe im nauditi; na nemoænike æe ruke polagati, i bit æe im dobro." |
| Danish | de skulle tage på Slanger, og dersom de drikke nogen Gift, skal det ikke skade dem; på syge skulle de lægge Hænder, og de skulle helbredes." |
| Dutch | Slangen zullen zij opnemen; en al is het, dat zij iets dodelijks zullen drinken, dat zal hun niet schaden; op kranken zullen zij de handen leggen, en zij zullen gezond worden. |
| Finnish | nostavat käsin käärmeitä, ja jos he juovat jotakin kuolettavaa, ei se heitä vahingoita; he panevat kätensä sairasten päälle, ja ne tulevat terveiksi." |
| French | ils saisiront des serpents; s`ils boivent quelque breuvage mortel, il ne leur feront point de mal; ils imposeront les mains aux malades, et les malades, seront guéris. |
| Gaelic | Is togaidh iad nathraichean; agus ma dh` olas iad ni marbhtach sam bith, cha dean e cron orra; cuiridh iad an lamhan air daoine tinn, agus bithidh iad gu math. |
| German | Schlangen vertreiben; und so sie etwas Tödliches trinken, wird's ihnen nicht schaden; auf die Kranken werden sie die Hände legen, so wird es besser mit ihnen werden. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo ta mèt kenbe sèpan, yo ta mèt bwè pwazon, anyen p'ap rive yo. y'a mete men sou tèt moun malad, moun malad yo va geri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau mereka memegang ular atau minum racun, mereka tidak akan mendapat celaka. Kalau mereka meletakkan tangan ke atas orang-orang yang sakit, orang-orang itu akan sembuh." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | mereka itu akan mengangkat ular, maka jikalau mereka itu minum barang yang membawa mati, tiadalah hal itu akan memberi bahaya kepada mereka itu; maka mereka itu akan meletakkan tangannya ke atas orang sakit, lalu orang itu pun akan sembuh." |
| Italian | prenderanno in mano i serpenti e, se berranno qualche veleno, non recherà loro danno, imporranno le mani ai malati e questi guariranno». |
| Maori | Ka tango ake ai ratou i nga nakahi; a ki te inu i tetahi mea whakamate, e kore ratou e ahatia; ka pa o ratou ringa ki nga turoro, a ka ora. |
| Norwegian | de skal ta slanger i hendene, og om de drikker noget giftig, skal det ikke skade dem; på syke skal de legge sine hender, og de skal bli helbredet. |
| Portuguese | pegarão em serpentes; e se beberem alguma coisa mortífera, não lhes fará dano algum; e porão as mãos sobre os enfermos, e estes serão curados. |
| Rumanian | vor lua kn mknq werpi; dacq vor bea ceva de moarte, nu -i va vqtqma; kwi vor pune mknile peste bolnavi, wi bolnavii se vor knsqnqtowa.`` |
| Russian | ВХДХФ ВТБФШ ЪНЕК; Й ЕУМЙ ЮФП УНЕТФПОПУОПЕ ЧЩРШАФ, ОЕ РПЧТЕДЙФ ЙН; ЧПЪМПЦБФ ТХЛЙ ОБ ВПМШОЩИ, Й ПОЙ ВХДХФ ЪДПТПЧЩ. |
| Shuar | napincha achiksha, tseasnasha úmaksha, jaa ajaschartatui. Jaa shuaran ni uwejejai antin, nu shuaran pénker awajsartatui." Tu Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | tomarán serpientes en las manos, y si llegan a beber cosa venenosa, no les dañará. Sobre los enfermos pondrán sus manos, y sanarán." |
| Swahili | Wakishika nyoka au wakinywa kitu chochote chenye sumu, hakitawadhuru. Watawawekea wagonjwa mikono, nao watapona." |
| Swedish | ormar skola de taga i händerna, och om de dricka något dödande gift, så skall det alls icke skada dem; på sjuka skola de lägga händerna, och de skola då bliva friska." |
| Uma | Ria-ra to ngkamu ule, ba paia-na nginu rasu, aga uma moto-ra moapa. Mpojama-ra tauna to peda', bona mo'uri' -ra topeda'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "poison": poisoned, poisoner, poisoners, poisoning, poisonings, poisonous, poisonously, poisons, poisonwood, poisonwoods. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "poison": empoison. (additional references) | |
Words containing "poison": empoisoned, empoisoning, empoisonment, empoisonments, empoisons, nonpoisonous. (additional references) | |
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"Poison" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boismond, boison, Boisrond, Cowieson, foyson, Moisan, opion, opsin, paison, Peason, Phocion, pioson, Pipson, pison, Pisoni, pisson, Pixon, Plisson, plosions, Pogson, Poipou, poisen, poisin, poision, poisson, poissons, poizone, Polikon, Ponsyn, Porson, Posidon, Posidonia, posino, posion, poulsom, poumon, Poussou, povidone, Poyton, Pusiano. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "poison" (pronounced poy"zun) |
| 3 | -z u n | arisen, artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hausen, Hazan, horizon, imprison, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, prison, reason, risen, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen, wizen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: opsin, pions, poons, snoop, spoon. | |
-2 letters: ions, nips, oops, pins, pion, piso, pois, pons, poon, snip, soon, spin. | |
-3 letters: ins, ion, nip, noo, nos, ons, ops, pin, pis, poi, psi, sin, sip, son, sop. | |
-4 letters: in, is, no, on, op, os, pi, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: opsonic, opsonin, options, plosion, pocosin, poisons, potions. | |
+2 letters: anoopsia, empoison, iodopsin, isopodan, opinions, opposing, opsonify, opsonins, opsonize, plosions, pocosins, pogonias, pogonips, poisoned, poisoner, portions, position, positron, scooping, scorpion, snoopier, snoopily, snooping, sorption, spittoon, sponsion, spoofing, spooking, spooling, spoonier, spoonies, spoonily, spooning, spooring, stooping, swooping, tompions, woopsing. | |
+3 letters: adoptions, anoopsias, cioppinos, composing, cooptions, doupionis, empoisons, epigonous, explosion, hyponoias, implosion, iodopsins, isopodans, opsonized, opsonizes, optionals, optionees, outpoints, palominos, pecorinos, phoronids, photonics, picaroons, pinewoods, pinkroots, pliotrons, poisoners, poisoning, poisonous, polonaise, poloniums, positions, positrons, postilion, potations, profusion, prognosis, prolusion, proposing, provision, rhodopsin, scorpions, scrooping, snoopiest, sopranino, sorptions, spittoons, sponsions, spoolings, spoonbill, spooniest, troponins. | |
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