0 past simple and past participle of poison
1 to kill a person or animal or to make them very ill by giving them poison:
2 to spoil a friendship or another situation, by making it very unpleasant:
Finally, there was an abnormal proliferation of texts narrating the tales of the few wives who actually poisoned their husbands.
The "poisoned gems" send her into a state of hysterical nervous shock because she is already primed internally by apparitions signifying her remorse.
What little 'trickle-down' there was trickled mainly into provincial capitals, and local people themselves were often left with little but denuded hillsides and poisoned rivers.
Is 'masculinist' a term so poisoned that no respectable feminist will touch it?
Deconstructing the gift, he demonstrated its radical impossibility: a true, pure and altruistic gift does not and cannot exist; gifts are always poisoned.
We cannot be sure, but many people believe, to this day, that he was poisoned.
There together with a few other fellows he poisoned a rich lady with the intent to rob her.
He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisoned chalice.
