EMPOISON Definition & Meaning

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empoison

[ em-poi-zuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to corrupt:
to empoison the minds of the young.
to embitter:
His own failure has empoisoned him.
Archaic. to poison.

empoison

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verb

rare.
to embitter or corrupt
an archaic word for poison poison poison poison

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Derived Forms

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of empoison¹

1275–1325; Middle English empoysonen < Old French empoisoner. See em- ¹, poison

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Platforms like Facebook and Twitter were – and are – staging grounds for foreign propaganda campaigns meant to scramble and empoison US politics and society.

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But if instead of professing themselves Jewellers, they post themselves up as Physicians, the Croud purchase, at a high Rate, the Pleasure of trusting them with the Care of their Lives, the remaining Part of which they rarely fail to empoison.

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Empoison, em-poi′zn, v.t. to put poison in: to poison.—p.adj.

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"One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking."

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These periodicals empoison the soul created by God.

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