Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who poisons or corrupts, or that which poisons or corrupts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who poisons.
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- noun A person who
poisons something or someone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who kills with poison
Etymologies
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Examples
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“It seems”—he struggled for breath—“it seems that you have been labelled a poisoner!”
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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In any event, it's fortunate for W that if he was intentionally poisoned, the poisoner was as effective at his job as W was at HIS.
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In any event, it's fortunate for W that if he was intentionally poisoned, the poisoner was as effective at his job as W was at HIS.
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“It seems”—he struggled for breath—“it seems that you have been labelled a poisoner!”
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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It is possible for me to imagine, in the face of certain undeniable signs, that the poisoner is a second man.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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Magyar, Wendish, etc. Certain variants of the ballad bear the title of _The Croodlin Doo_, and the ‘handsome young man’ is changed for a child, and the poisoner is the child’s step-mother.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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The genre reached its college-football apotheosis in the Paul Finebaum Radio Network, a Birmingham, Ala.,-based program perhaps best known for carrying the call-in confession of the Auburn tree poisoner earlier this year.
The Game of the Century of the Week Rachel Bachman 2011
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The eponymous heroine, part femme fatale, part serial poisoner, stalks a young man named Gennaro through the cities of Italy.
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And Kay, who is a well-poisoner by profession, renders the issue utterly toxic with his continual accusations and innuendos.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Oscar Wilde once said that "The fact of a man's being a poisoner is nothing against his poetry."
John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry 2011
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