English-Italian translations for poison

• veleno
  Il veleno delle farine contaminate. The poison of the contaminated feeds.
  Le persone in Europa non vogliono veleno nei loro piatti. People in Europe do not want poison on their plates.
  Ma Firenze vuole anche dire i Medici, il veleno. But Florence also stands for the Medicis, for poison.
• avvelenare
  E' relativamente facile avvelenare l'acqua. It is relatively straightforward to poison water.
  Nessuno ha il diritto di avvelenare la nostra Terra comune e la nostra acqua potabile. No-one has the right to poison our common earth and drinking water.
  Avvelenare così i bambini non è certo il modo migliore per introdurli alla vita. Poisoning children in this fashion is no way to start them out on life.
• intossicare

Definition of poison

• A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism
• Something that harms a person or thing
• A drink; liquor
• Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity
• To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody
• To pollute; to cause to become poisonous
• To cause to become much worse
• To cause to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
• To inhibit the catalytic activity of

Examples

• We used a poison to kill the weeds
• Gossip is a malicious poison
• — Whats your poison?
• — Ill have a glass of whisky.
• The assassin poisoned the king
• That factory is poisoning the river
• Suspicion will poison their relationship
• He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism
• Shes poisoned him against all his old friends

Related words

• poisonous
• poisoning
• poisoned
• nonpoisonous
• non-poisonous
• poisoner
• poisonously
• empoison
• poisonousness