Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Infected with poison; poisoned.
  • To poison; charge or infect with poison.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To poison; to infect with poison.
  • adjective Poisoned.

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  • adjective obsolete poisoned

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Examples

  • Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

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