· any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

Synonym(s): toxicant, poisonous_substance

Hypernym(s): substance

· anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"

Hypernym(s): destructiveness

· spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office"

Hypernym(s): corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect

· kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband"

Hypernym(s): kill

· add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"

Synonym(s): envenom

Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify

· kill by its poison; "This mushrooms can poison"

Hypernym(s): kill

· administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

Hypernym(s): drug, dose