Envenom

Word ENVENOM
Character 7
Hyphenation en ven om
Pronunciations /ɪnˈvɛnəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Envenom"

What do we mean by envenom?

To make poisonous or noxious. transitive verb

To embitter. transitive verb

To taint or impregnate, as meat, drink, or weapons, with venom or any substance noxious to life; make poisonous: chiefly in the past participle: as, an envenomed arrow or shaft; an envenomed potion.

Figuratively, to imbue as it were with venom; taint with bitterness or malice.

To make odious or hateful.

To make angry; enrage; exasperate.

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; ; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. transitive verb

To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. transitive verb

To make poisonous verb

To acerbate verb

Add poison to verb

Cause to be bitter or resentful verb

To poison, to put or inject venom onto or into.

To acerbate.

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The word "envenom" in example sentences

In Lemnos pining with th 'envenom'd wound The fon of Psan, Philocletes, lay: ❋ Unknown (1790)

543: With conquest, felt th 'envenom'd robe, and tore ❋ Unknown (1667)

No. Then let France carry on, unless you deliberately decide to envenom the conflict in order to distract attention from your own difficulties. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These notaries are strange fellows; they envenom everything. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mothers of families, dowagers who had granddaughters to establish, young girls jealous of Natalie, whose elegance and tyrannical beauty annoyed them, took pains to envenom this opinion with treacherous remarks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There were private wrongs to envenom the contest, but it was the mercantile quarrel on which the Colonel chose to set his declaration of war. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To cite a rather trivial example, nothing in the creed or practice of Christians does more to envenom the hatred of Mahomedans against them, than the fact of their eating pork. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I rushed forward, regretting only that I had not had time to envenom my blade. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1985)

M. Louis Blanc has distilled the bile of journalism; he has paused over the hasty sarcasm which political animosity deals forth, not to correct, or moderate, or abate, but merely to point and envenom it. ❋ Various (N/A)

It requires but a few drops of poison to envenom a whole well. ❋ Various (N/A)

This last was ominous, and carried more weight than all the other signs of trouble brewing, and roused the fathers to some activity; for the neophytes, at that late day, in mission history, were not allowed to envenom their arrows without the express sanction of the fathers. ❋ Charles Franklin Carter (N/A)

Unfortunately there have been writers, too, who have come before the public professing an intimate acquaintance with, and an impartial judgment of, colonial life, who have not failed to heap aspersions on the very name of the country and everything connected with it, and to envenom their writings with the rankest untruths. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)

The meat of the one man shall envenom the meat of the other. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then comes Hélène Jegado, of France, who, according to one account, with two more working years (eighteen instead of sixteen), contrived to envenom twenty-six people, and attempted the lives of twelve more. ❋ Unknown (1935)

One wore spectacles; the other was dressed as a European; and they both looked like young intellectuals of the kind who make the rounds of the universities before returning to India to envenom politics in the name of spiritual vision. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1931)

The real difficulty being social and racial, to mix politics with it was to envenom it. ❋ Thayer, William R (1919)

At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases -- those of private life as well as those which envenom the wounded soldier on the battlefield. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Naturally, from these centuries of unrelenting strife furious hatreds and fanaticisms were engendered which still envenom the relations of Islam and Christendom. ❋ Lothrop Stoddard (1916)

Now, an insect without fangs (or sting), duct, and poison gland, can no more envenom the object of its attack than a fish can kick a man to death. ❋ Unknown (1910)

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