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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poison +‎ -er

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Examples

  • “It seems”—he struggled for breath—“it seems that you have been labelled a poisoner!”

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • 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.

    Laura Bush alleges poisoning in new book 2010

  • 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.

    Laura Bush alleges poisoning in new book 2010

  • “It seems”—he struggled for breath—“it seems that you have been labelled a poisoner!”

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The eponymous heroine, part femme fatale, part serial poisoner, stalks a young man named Gennaro through the cities of Italy.

    Lucrezia Borgia - review 2011

  • 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

  • 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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