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empoison

[ em-poi-zuhn ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to corrupt:

    to empoison the minds of the young.

  2. to embitter:

    His own failure has empoisoned him.

  3. Archaic. to poison.


empoison

/ ɪ³¾Ëˆ±èɔɪ³úÉ™²Ô /

verb

  1. rare.
    to embitter or corrupt
  2. an archaic word for poison poison poison poison
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Derived Forms

  • ±ð³¾Ëˆ±è´Ç¾±²õ´Ç²Ô³¾±ð²Ô³Ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ð³¾Â·±è´Ç¾±î€ƒs´Ç²Ô·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
  • ³Ü²Ôe³¾Â·±è´Ç¾±î€ƒs´Ç²Ô±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of empoison1

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

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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.

From

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.

From

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

From

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

From

These periodicals empoison the soul created by God.

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