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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. |
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That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as,
the poison of evil example; the poison of sin. |
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To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to
poison an arrow; to poison food or drink. |
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To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to. |
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To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons
happiness; slander poisoned his mind. |
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To act as, or convey, a poison. |
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