Empoisoning

The fox, perceiving this, said unto the lion, O gossip lion, my friend, I pray thee do not put in all thy moss there; keep somewhat, for there is yet here another little hole, that stinks like five hundred devils; I am almost choked with the smell thereof, it is so pestiferous and empoisoning. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Great bubbles of gas rose to the surface and burst, still further empoisoning the air. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

But oh! how devilish were those men who, to frustrate and defeat his goodness, and to countermand the healing power of lead, first found the champing and empoisoning of bullets! ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)

Reader, did you ever feel in that peculiarly distressing state of mind in which one oppressing idea displaces or colours every other, absorbing, intermingling with, empoisoning, and, like the filth of the harpy, turning every thing into disgust -- when a certain incubus rides upon the brain, as the Old Man of the Mountain did upon the shoulders of ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)