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Envenom   Listen
verb
Envenom  v. t.  (past & past part. envenomed; pres. part. envenoming)  
1.
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. "Alcides... felt the envenomed robe." "O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!"
2.
To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. "The envenomed tongue of calumny." "On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed."






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"Envenom" Quotes from Famous Books



... among men so much vain speech, so much precious breath and precious time wasted in empty boasts, foolish anger, useless reiteration, blatant argument, ignoble mouthings, that I have learned to deem speech a curse, laid on man to weaken and envenom all his undertakings. For over two hundred years I have never spoken myself: you, I hear, are not so reticent. I only speak now because one of you said a beautiful thing that touched me. If we all might but go back to our makers! Ah, yes! ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... "Envenom'd Passions all his thoughts unhinge! The Slave of Vice must thy companion move; If still he burns with thirst of dire Revenge, Lawless Ambition, ...
— An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; The - Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects • Nathaniel Bloomfield

... leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish &c. 162; die &c. 360. [Render less good] deteriorate; weaken &c. 160; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison[obs3], envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate|, pollute, vitiate, inquinate|; debase, embase|; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain &c. (dirt) 653; discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



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