POISONED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of poison 2. to kill a person or animal or to make them very ill…. Learn more.
- To kill or harm with poison. 2. To put poison on or into: poisoning arrows; poisoned the drink. 3. a. To pollute: Noxious fumes poison the air. See Synonyms at contaminate. b. To have a harmful influence on; corrupt: Jealousy poisoned their friendship.
In this sense, poison can be used as a verb to mean to give poison to a living thing, as in The farmer poisoned his rival’s sheep. Poison can also mean to harm or kill a living thing with poison, as in The king died because he had been poisoned by one of his own knights.
If you are poisoned by a substance, it makes you very ill and sometimes kills you.
v. [~ + object] Pathology to kill or injure with or as if with poison: She had been poisoned. to put poison into or upon: Some of those foods had been poisoned. to ruin or corrupt: Hatred had poisoned their minds. adj. [usually: before a noun] containing poison: a poison shrub.
Adjective poisoned (comparative more poisoned, superlative most poisoned) (of a living thing) Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.
Millions of people are unintentionally poisoned each year, and children under the age of six are at the greatest risk. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of people intentionally attempt to hurt themselves by ingesting poison or overdosing on medications each year.
New York Post: Researchers find world’s oldest poisoned arrowheads coated with toxins from deadly, onion-like plant