What is another word for poison?
1084 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈɔ͡ɪzən], [ pˈɔɪzən], [ p_ˈɔɪ_z_ə_n]
There are numerous synonyms for the word "poison" and they all depict various forms of toxicity. Some common synonyms include venom, toxin, lethal substance, noxious material, harmful agent, and deadly potion. Other synonyms can also be related to specific types of poison such as arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine. Poisoning is a serious medical emergency and can be caused by ingestion, inhalation, or exposure to harmful substances. As such, it is important to know the different terms associated with this dangerous phenomenon and to take all necessary precautions to avoid coming into contact with any form of poisonous materials.
Synonyms for Poison:
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adj.
• evil • malevolent • objectionable • nasty- bummest ,
- dis agreeable ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- more polluted ,
- most polluted ,
- soiled ,
- un appetizing ,
- un clean ,
- un cleaner ,
- un cleanest ,
- un cleanlier ,
- un cleanliest ,
- un cleanly ,
- un godlier ,
- un godliest ,
- un godly ,
- un holier ,
- un holiest ,
- un holy ,
- un-appetizing ,
- un-cleaner ,
- un-cleanest ,
- un-cleanlier ,
- un-cleanliest ,
- un-cleanly ,
- un-godlier ,
- un-godliest ,
- un-godly ,
- un-holier ,
- un-holiest ,
- un-holy ,
- uncleanly ,
- unholy ,
- yucky .
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n.
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- Black Widow Spider ,
- Brutalities ,
- Cantharides ,
- Carbolic ,
- Hydrochloric ,
- Oxalic ,
- Paris Green ,
- Prussic ,
- aconite ,
- agent orange ,
- barbarism ,
- belladonna ,
- blue vitriol ,
- botulin ,
- bullying ,
- carbon monoxide gas ,
- caustic soda ,
- cooking gas ,
- copper sulfate ,
- copperhead ,
- cruelty ,
- curare ,
- ddt ,
- death angel mushroom ,
- foxglove ,
- hydrocyanic acid cyanide ,
- inhumanity ,
- lead arsenate ,
- lye ,
- maltreatment ,
- nightshade ,
- nitric ,
- oil ,
- poison ivy ,
- radiation ,
- radon gas ,
- savagery ,
- sulphuric ,
- tarantula venom poison oak ,
- vapor .
- affliction ,
- calamity ,
- cancer ,
- curse ,
- doom ,
- ill ,
- misfortune ,
- plague ,
- scourge .
- Demolisher ,
- chemotherapies ,
- chemotherapy ,
- demolishers ,
- despoiler ,
- despoilers ,
- eradicators ,
- exterminators ,
- pillager ,
- pillagers ,
- ransacker ,
- ransackers ,
- savages ,
- vandal ,
- wrecker ,
- wreckers .
- communicabilities ,
- contagiousnesses ,
- flus ,
- in sanitation ,
- in sanitations ,
- in-sanitation ,
- in-sanitations ,
- insanitations ,
- septicities ,
- what going around ,
- what going arounds ,
- what's going arounds ,
- whats going around ,
- whats going arounds .
- aqua vitaes ,
- ex tract ,
- ex-tract ,
- ex-tracts ,
- firewaters ,
- hard stuffs ,
- in fusion ,
- in fusions ,
- in toxicant ,
- in toxicants ,
- in-fusion ,
- in-toxicant ,
- in-toxicants .
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v.
• canker- de base ,
- de based ,
- de basing ,
- de moralize ,
- de moralized ,
- de moralizes ,
- de moralizing ,
- de-base ,
- de-based ,
- de-basing ,
- de-moralize ,
- de-moralized ,
- de-moralizes ,
- de-moralizing ,
- sored ,
- soring .
- be numb ,
- be numbed ,
- be numbing ,
- be numbs ,
- be-numb ,
- be-numbed ,
- be-numbing ,
- be-numbs ,
- de aden ,
- de adens ,
- de sensitize ,
- de sensitized ,
- de sensitizes ,
- de sensitizing ,
- de-aden ,
- de-adens ,
- de-sensitize ,
- de-sensitized ,
- de-sensitizes ,
- de-sensitizing ,
- doped up ,
- dopes up ,
- doping up ,
- dosed up ,
- doses up ,
- dosing up ,
- re lax ,
- re-lax .
- dis affect ,
- dis affected ,
- dis affecting ,
- dis affects ,
- dis illusion ,
- dis illusioned ,
- dis illusions ,
- dis-affect ,
- dis-affected ,
- dis-affecting ,
- dis-affects ,
- dis-illusion ,
- dis-illusioned ,
- dis-illusions ,
- ex acerbate ,
- ex acerbated ,
- ex acerbates ,
- ex acerbating ,
- ex asperate ,
- ex asperates ,
- ex asperating ,
- ex-acerbate ,
- ex-acerbated ,
- ex-acerbates ,
- ex-acerbating ,
- ex-asperate ,
- ex-asperated ,
- ex-asperates ,
- ex-asperating ,
- made bitter ,
- made resentful ,
- makes bitter ,
- makes resentful ,
- making bitter ,
- making resentful .
- dis ease ,
- dis eased ,
- dis eases ,
- dis easing ,
- dis-ease ,
- dis-eased ,
- dis-eases ,
- dis-easing ,
- spreading among ,
- spreads among ,
- spreads to .
- dis patch ,
- dis patched ,
- dis patches ,
- dis patching ,
- dis-patch ,
- dis-patched ,
- dis-patches ,
- dis-patching ,
- electro cute ,
- electro cutes ,
- electro-cute ,
- electro-cutes ,
- ex terminate ,
- ex terminated ,
- ex terminates ,
- ex terminating ,
- ex-terminate ,
- ex-terminated ,
- ex-terminates ,
- ex-terminating ,
- put death ,
- puts death ,
- puts to death ,
- putting death ,
- x outed ,
- x outing ,
- x outs ,
- x-outed ,
- x-outing ,
- x-outs ,
- xout ,
- xouted ,
- xouting ,
- xouts .
- be smirch ,
- be smirched ,
- be smirches ,
- be smirching ,
- be-smirch ,
- be-smirched ,
- be-smirches ,
- be-smirching ,
- dis honor ,
- dis honored ,
- dis honoring ,
- dis honors ,
- dis-honor ,
- dis-honored ,
- dis-honoring ,
- dis-honors ,
- made filthy ,
- makes filthy ,
- making filthy .
- co loring ,
- co-loring ,
- dis pose ,
- dis posed ,
- dis posing ,
- dis tort ,
- dis torts ,
- dis-pose ,
- dis-posed ,
- dis-posing ,
- dis-tort ,
- dis-torts ,
- in cline ,
- in clines ,
- in-cline ,
- in-clines ,
- pre dispose ,
- pre disposes ,
- pre disposing ,
- pre judged ,
- pre judges ,
- pre judging ,
- pre possess ,
- pre possessed ,
- pre possesses ,
- pre possessing ,
- pre-dispose ,
- pre-disposed ,
- pre-disposes ,
- pre-judged ,
- pre-judges ,
- pre-judging ,
- pre-possess ,
- pre-possessed ,
- pre-possessing ,
- under mined ,
- under mining ,
- under-mined ,
- under-mining .
- de feat ,
- de feats ,
- de press ,
- de pressed ,
- de presses ,
- de pressing ,
- de-feat ,
- de-feats ,
- de-press ,
- de-pressed ,
- de-presses ,
- de-pressing ,
- in validate ,
- in validated ,
- in validates ,
- in validating ,
- in-validate ,
- in-validated ,
- in-validates ,
- in-validating ,
- over throw ,
- over throwing ,
- over thrown ,
- over throws ,
- over turning ,
- over turns ,
- over-throw ,
- over-throwing ,
- over-thrown ,
- over-throws ,
- over-turn ,
- over-turning ,
- re versing ,
- re-versed ,
- top pled ,
- up sets ,
- up setting ,
- up-set ,
- up-sets ,
- up-setting .
- brake down ,
- breaks down ,
- broke down ,
- cast slur ,
- casting a slur ,
- casting slur ,
- casts a slur ,
- casts slur ,
- co oked ,
- co oking ,
- co-oked ,
- co-oking ,
- crudded up ,
- crudding up ,
- cruds up ,
- de cay ,
- de cays ,
- de compose ,
- de composed ,
- de composes ,
- de composing ,
- de-cay ,
- de-cays ,
- de-compose ,
- de-composed ,
- de-composes ,
- de-composing ,
- dis color ,
- dis colored ,
- dis coloring ,
- dis colors ,
- dis credit ,
- dis credited ,
- dis crediting ,
- dis credits ,
- dis grace ,
- dis graced ,
- dis graces ,
- dis gracing ,
- dis integrate ,
- dis integrated ,
- dis integrates ,
- dis integrating ,
- dis-color ,
- dis-colored ,
- dis-coloring ,
- dis-colors ,
- dis-credit ,
- dis-credited ,
- dis-crediting ,
- dis-credits ,
- dis-grace ,
- dis-graced ,
- dis-graces ,
- dis-gracing ,
- dis-integrate ,
- dis-integrated ,
- dis-integrates ,
- dis-integrating ,
- disco loring ,
- disco-loring ,
- gave a bad name ,
- gave bad name ,
- give bad name ,
- gives a bad name ,
- gives bad name ,
- giving a bad name ,
- giving bad name .
Other synonyms:
- Empoison ,
- Mephitical ,
- adulterant ,
- adulterator ,
- contaminant ,
- contaminator ,
- destroyer ,
- germicide ,
- insecticide ,
- mephitic ,
- pollutant ,
- toxin ,
- venom .
- biodegradable ,
- biohazard ,
- biological control ,
- carbon sink ,
- carbon trading ,
- carbon-neutral ,
- catalytic converter ,
- clean up ,
- the carbon cycle .
- blow ,
- cloud ,
- crime ,
- deterrence ,
- deterrent ,
- disincentive ,
- goad ,
- hammer blow ,
- kiss of death .
- exterminator ,
- killer .
Other relevant words:
- Diseasing ,
- Muddying ,
- Poisoned ,
- Tarred ,
- Tarring ,
- Tars ,
- Trashed ,
- Ulcered ,
- act ,
- agent ,
- break down ,
- breaking down ,
- canker ,
- cast a slur ,
- cause ,
- contaminate ,
- crud up ,
- dealing ,
- destroy ,
- effect ,
- eliminate ,
- give a bad name ,
- infect ,
- make filthy ,
- move ,
- muddied ,
- muddies ,
- over turn ,
- pollute ,
- prejudice ,
- prepossess ,
- process ,
- rotted ,
- ruin ,
- sores ,
- spread among ,
- spread to ,
- spreading to ,
- stop ,
- subvert ,
- taint ,
- tar ,
- ulcering ,
- up set .
- ivy .
- anesthetize ,
- anesthetized ,
- anesthetizes ,
- anesthetizing ,
- dope up ,
- dose up ,
- dosed ,
- dosing ,
- drugged ,
- medicate ,
- narcotize ,
- physic ,
- relaxes ,
- sedated ,
- sedates ,
- sedating .
- Garroted ,
- Garroting ,
- Killed ,
- OFFS ,
- garrote ,
- garrotes ,
- immolate ,
- kill ,
- killing ,
- lynching ,
- murdered ,
- offed ,
- offing ,
- put to death ,
- putting to death ,
- snuff .
- Acrimoniousness ,
- Assassin ,
- Bichloride Of Mercury ,
- Bloodletter ,
- Bloodshedder ,
- Causticness ,
- Communicability ,
- Contagiousness ,
- Disserve ,
- Embase ,
- Exulcerate ,
- Fire-water ,
- Hazardous Waste ,
- Head-hunter ,
- Infectiousness ,
- Inquinate ,
- John barleycorn ,
- Massacrer ,
- Miasm ,
- Microbicide ,
- Rancidity ,
- Rancidness ,
- Venin ,
- abase ,
- abomination ,
- abuse ,
- acaricide ,
- acerbate ,
- acerbity ,
- acridity ,
- acridness ,
- acrimony ,
- activate ,
- adulterate ,
- adulteration ,
- adversity ,
- affect ,
- afflict ,
- aggrieve ,
- alcohol ,
- alloy ,
- alter ,
- anaesthetize ,
- animosity ,
- annihilate ,
- annoy ,
- antagonism ,
- anthelmintic ,
- antibiotic ,
- antiseptic ,
- apache ,
- arsenic trioxide ,
- asperity ,
- assassinator ,
- atrocity ,
- atropine ,
- azote ,
- bacteria ,
- bad ,
- baleful ,
- baneful ,
- bastardize ,
- become stale ,
- befoul ,
- befoulment ,
- benumb ,
- bereave of life ,
- beryllium ,
- bewitch ,
- bias ,
- bile ,
- bite ,
- bitterness ,
- blight ,
- bollix up ,
- booze ,
- bravo ,
- breach ,
- break ,
- burker ,
- butcher ,
- button man ,
- cadmium ,
- cannibal ,
- carbamate insecticide ,
- carbolic acid ,
- carbon tetrachloride ,
- carcinogen ,
- carry away ,
- carry off ,
- causticity ,
- change ,
- charge ,
- cheapen ,
- chemosterilant ,
- chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide ,
- chlorine ,
- chloroform ,
- coarsen ,
- cocaine ,
- colour ,
- condemn ,
- confound ,
- contumely ,
- corrupt ,
- corruption ,
- cripple ,
- crucify ,
- cure ,
- cut ,
- cut down ,
- cutthroat ,
- cynicism ,
- damage ,
- damaging ,
- darken ,
- deaden ,
- deadliness ,
- debase ,
- debauch ,
- defilement ,
- deflower ,
- defoliant ,
- degenerate ,
- degrade ,
- deleterious ,
- demoralize ,
- denaturalize ,
- denature ,
- deprave ,
- derision ,
- desecrate ,
- despatch ,
- desperado ,
- despoil ,
- despoliation ,
- destruction ,
- destructiveness ,
- deteriorate ,
- detriment ,
- detrimental ,
- devalue ,
- dilute ,
- dirt ,
- dirty ,
- disable ,
- disadvantage ,
- discolor ,
- disdain ,
- disease ,
- disguise ,
- disillusion ,
- disinfectant ,
- dispatch ,
- dispose of ,
- distort ,
- distress ,
- do away with ,
- do evil ,
- do for ,
- do to death ,
- do wrong ,
- do wrong by ,
- doctor ,
- dope ,
- drug ,
- dull ,
- embalming fluid ,
- end ,
- envenom ,
- eradicator ,
- execute ,
- executioner ,
- exterminate ,
- falsify ,
- fester ,
- finish ,
- finish off ,
- formaldehyde ,
- foul ,
- fuddle ,
- fumigant ,
- fungicide ,
- gall ,
- garroter ,
- gas ,
- germ ,
- gorilla ,
- grievance ,
- gun ,
- gunman ,
- gunsel ,
- hallucinogen ,
- harass ,
- harm ,
- harmful ,
- harshness ,
- hatchet man ,
- hate ,
- hatred ,
- havoc ,
- herbicide ,
- hex ,
- hit man ,
- homicide ,
- hooch ,
- hostility ,
- hurt ,
- hurtful ,
- hydrocyanic acid ,
- hyoscyamine ,
- impair ,
- inebriate ,
- infectivity ,
- influence ,
- inimical ,
- injure ,
- injurious ,
- injury ,
- insalubrity ,
- insect powder ,
- inspire ,
- intoxicate ,
- intoxicating ,
- irony ,
- irradiate ,
- jaundice ,
- jinx ,
- juice ,
- lead ,
- leaven ,
- lessen ,
- liquidate ,
- liquor ,
- louse up ,
- lynch ,
- make away with ,
- make ill ,
- malaria ,
- maleficent ,
- malevolence ,
- malevolent ,
- malice ,
- maliciousness ,
- malignancy ,
- malignity ,
- maltreat ,
- man-eater ,
- manslayer ,
- mar ,
- martyr ,
- martyrize ,
- matador ,
- medicament ,
- medication ,
- medicine ,
- menace ,
- mephitis ,
- mercuric chloride ,
- mercury ,
- miasma ,
- mischief ,
- mistreat ,
- misuse ,
- miticide ,
- mix ,
- modify ,
- molest ,
- mordacity ,
- mountain dew ,
- murder ,
- murderer ,
- mustard gas ,
- narcotic drugs ,
- nasty ,
- nicotine ,
- noxiousness ,
- nullify ,
- numb ,
- objectionable ,
- outrage ,
- persecute ,
- pervert ,
- pest ,
- pesticide ,
- pestilence ,
- pestilent ,
- pestilential ,
- pharmaceutical ,
- phenol ,
- phosgene ,
- plague spot ,
- poison gas ,
- poisoner ,
- poisoning ,
- poisonous substance ,
- poisonousness ,
- pollution ,
- prostitute ,
- prussic acid ,
- purge ,
- put away ,
- put back ,
- put to sleep ,
- rancour ,
- rat poison ,
- ravage ,
- ravish ,
- red-eye ,
- remove from life ,
- resentment ,
- ricin ,
- ridicule ,
- rodenticide ,
- rot ,
- rotgut ,
- sacrifice ,
- sarcasm ,
- satire ,
- sauce ,
- savage ,
- scathe ,
- scorn ,
- screw up ,
- sedate ,
- selenium ,
- set back ,
- sewer gas ,
- sharpness ,
- shellac ,
- slant ,
- slaughterer ,
- slay ,
- slayer ,
- soil ,
- sophisticate ,
- sophistication ,
- spike ,
- spirit ,
- spite ,
- spitefulness ,
- spleen ,
- spoil ,
- stain ,
- starve ,
- strangler ,
- strengthen ,
- stupefy ,
- sully ,
- systemic ,
- take life ,
- take off ,
- tamper with ,
- tarnish ,
- tartar emetic ,
- teratogen ,
- threaten ,
- thug ,
- torment ,
- torpedo ,
- torture ,
- toxic substance ,
- toxic waste ,
- toxicant ,
- toxicity ,
- toxicology ,
- toxoid ,
- trash ,
- trigger man ,
- twist ,
- ulcer ,
- ulcerate ,
- undermine ,
- unhealthiness ,
- unpleasant ,
- venomousness ,
- vermicide ,
- vexation ,
- vicious ,
- violate ,
- virulence ,
- virulency ,
- vitiate ,
- vitriol ,
- vulgarize ,
- warp ,
- water ,
- weaken ,
- weed killer ,
- whisky ,
- white lightning ,
- white mule ,
- woe ,
- wolf's bane ,
- wound ,
- wreak havoc ,
- wreak havoc on ,
- wreck ,
- wrong .
- Cokes ,
- Downs ,
- Health Hazards ,
- Industrial Waste ,
- Industrial Wastes ,
- Insanitation ,
- Mutagens ,
- Nuclear Waste ,
- Septicity ,
- Toxins ,
- aqua vitae ,
- atomic waste ,
- bane ,
- biles ,
- coke ,
- contagion ,
- contaminated materials ,
- crystals ,
- deadly chemical ,
- decoction ,
- decoctions ,
- firewater ,
- flu ,
- freebase ,
- germs ,
- happy dust ,
- hard stuff ,
- hatefulness ,
- health hazard ,
- inebriant ,
- infection ,
- joy powder ,
- malignance ,
- mojo ,
- mutagen ,
- solvents ,
- speedball ,
- stardust ,
- stardusts ,
- the bottle ,
- what's going around ,
- white horse ,
- white horses ,
- white lady .
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How to use "Poison" in context?
When we think of poison, images of staggering victims with horrific injuries come to mind. But what many people don't realize is that some poisons can be quite benign, even helpful. Here are four examples:
1. Ethanol is a common ingredient in cleaning products and can be found in many common household items. However, ethanol can also be used as a poison. According to the National Institute of Health, ethanol can be fatal in high doses, but it's usually harmless when consumed in small amounts.
2. Cyanide is a deadly poison found in pills, gels, and capsules.
Paraphrases for Poison:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
poisoning.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
venom.
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Noun, singular or mass
venom.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
addiction, detoxification, gift, toxicology.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Adjective
poisonous.
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Proper noun, singular
poisonous.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Poison:
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- Synonyms:
- Radiciflorous.
