Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
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Strychnine
//ˈstrɪkˌnaɪn//
Synonyms for "strychnine" (5 found)
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24 translations across 22 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 士的寧 /士的宁 noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Czech
1 entries- strychnin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Dutch
1 entries- strychnine noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Esperanto
1 entries- striknino noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Finnish
1 entries- strykniini noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
French
1 entries- strychnine noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Galician
2 entries- esternina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
- estricnina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
German
1 entries- Strychnin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Hungarian
1 entries- sztrichnin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Ido
1 entries- striknino noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Italian
1 entries- stricnina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Japanese
2 entries- ストリキニン noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
- ストリキニーネ noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Korean
1 entries- 스트리크닌 noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Navajo
1 entries- mąʼiitsoh bee yigą́ noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stryknin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stryknin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Polish
1 entries- strychnina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Portuguese
1 entries- estricnina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Russian
1 entries- стрихни́н noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Spanish
1 entries- estricnina noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Swedish
1 entries- stryknin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Turkish
1 entries- striknin noun (very toxic, colourless, crystalline alkaloid)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
[…] strychnine is a fairly rapid drug in its action. The symptoms appear from one to two hours after it has been swallowed.
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