toxic effect

noun

an adverse effect of a drug produced by an exaggeration of the effect that produces the theraputic response

This relentless disability trolling on dating websites can have a truly toxic effect.

"Hopped" wort exerts a toxic effect upon many bacteria, including the lactic acid bacteria.

But I wish to attest in passing that the mere witnessing of these free scenes had a tonic as well as toxic effect on me.

Thevetin and theveresin exercise a marked toxic effect on the heart.

Some may have said that the trees were having a toxic effect upon the soil.

Leaves, buds, and roots are all alike sensitive to this toxic effect, the nature of which is not yet understood.

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