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Envenom

//ɪnˈvɛnəm// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something). transitive

    "As when Alcides from Oealia Crown’d With conqueſt, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Theſſalian Pines […]"

  2. 2
    add poison to wordnet
  3. 3
    To acerbate, make bitter. transitive

    "Oh what a world is this, when what is comely Enuenoms him that beares it?"

  4. 4
    cause to be bitter or resentful wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English envenymen, from Old French envenimer (“to poison, taint”); equivalent to en- + venom.

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