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Venom   /vˈɛnəm/   Listen
noun
Venom  n.  
1.
Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by biting or stinging. "Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites."
2.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. "The venom of such looks."
Synonyms: Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.


verb
Venom  v. t.  To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. (R.) "Venomed vengeance."





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"Venom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Loke, the incarnation of evil, was for a long time bound to points of rock in a cavern, with a huge serpent crouching above and spitting venom on the prisoner. ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... to conceal the insults in the papers from his wife. Like a schoolboy trying to spirit away his bad marks he watched for the post so as to suppress the obnoxious sheets, but at last their venom seemed to poison the very air. Among their friends in society, Madame Clerambault and Rosine had to bear many painful allusions, small affronts, even insults. With the instinct of justice which characterises the human beast, and ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain
... the more gruesome phases of the belief in conjuration suggest possible poisoning, a knowledge of which baleful art was once supposed to be widespread among the imported Negroes of the olden time. The blood or venom of snakes, spiders, and lizards is supposed to be employed for this purpose. The results of its administration are so peculiar, however, and so entirely improbable, that one is supposed to doubt even the initial use of poison, and figure it in as part of the same general delusion. ...
— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt
... They are curious in the art of poisons, and can so temper them that they shall be weeks in acting upon the party, during which time the perpetrator has leisure to escape. They can impregnate cloth and leather, nay, even paper and parchment, with the most subtle venom. Our Lady forgive me! And wherefore, knowing this, hold I these letters of credence so close to my face? Take them, ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... farther—old Sabre going through that, and the solicitor tearing the inside out of him and throwing it in his face, and that treble-dyed Iscariot Twyning prompting the solicitor and egging him on, with his beastly spittle running like venom out of the corners of his mouth—I tell you my eyes felt like two boiled gooseberries in my head: boiled red hot; and a red-hot potato stuck in my throat, stuck ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson


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