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poisonless

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poi⋅son

  [poi-zuhn]
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–noun
1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
2. something harmful or pernicious, as to happiness or well-being: the poison of slander.
3. Slang. any variety of alcoholic liquor: Name your poison!
–verb (used with object)
4. to administer poison to (a person or animal).
5. to kill or injure with or as if with poison.
6. to put poison into or upon; saturate with poison: to poison food.
7. to ruin, vitiate, or corrupt: Hatred had poisoned his mind.
8. Chemistry. to destroy or diminish the activity of (a catalyst or enzyme).
–adjective
9. causing poisoning; poisonous: a poison shrub.
Origin:
1200–50; ME puisun < OF < L pōtiōn- (s. of pōtiō) drink, potion, poisonous draught

Related forms:
poi⋅son⋅er, noun
poi⋅son⋅less, adjective
poi⋅son⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. Poison, toxin, venom are terms for any substance that injures the health or destroys life when absorbed into the system, esp. of a higher animal. Poison is the general word: a poison for insects. A toxin is a poison produced by an organism; it is esp. used in medicine in reference to disease-causing bacterial secretions: A toxin produces diphtheria. Venom is esp. used of the poisons secreted by certain animals, usually injected by bite or sting: the venom of a snake. 7. contaminate, pollute, taint.
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Slang Dictionary
poison

  1. mod.
    wicked; evil. : Stay away from her. She's poison.
  2. n.
    an alcoholic drink. : Name your poison.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

poison 
c.1230, "a deadly potion," from O.Fr. puison (12c.) "a drink," later "a potion, poisonous drink" (14c.), from L. potionem (nom. potio) "a drink," also "poisonous drink," from potare "to drink" (see potion). The O.E. word was ator (see attercop). Slang sense of "alcoholic drink" first attested 1805, Amer.Eng. The verb is c.1300, from the noun. Poison ivy first recorded 1784; poison oak is from 1743. Poison gas first recorded 1915. Poison-pen is from 1914.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 3poison
Function: adjective
1 : POISONOUS poisonplant>
2 : impregnated with poison poison arrow>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

poison poi·son (poi'zən)
n.

  1. A substance taken internally or applied externally that is injurious to health or dangerous to life.

  2. A chemical substance that inhibits another substance or a reaction.

v. poi·soned, poi·son·ing, poi·sons
To kill or harm with poison.

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