envenom

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈvɛnəm/

Definition of envenom

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something).
    “As when Alcides from Oealia Crown’d With conqueſt, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Theſſalian Pines […]”
    “Nay, was it I who wooed thee to this breast, / Which like a serpent thou envenomest / As in repayment of the warmth it lent?”
    “Ah dearest, whoso sucks a poisoned wound Envenoms his own veins!”
    “The Kayans of Central Borneo ascribe souls to the trees which yield the poison they use to envenom their arrows.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something).
    “As when Alcides from Oealia Crown’d With conqueſt, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Theſſalian Pines […]”
    “Nay, was it I who wooed thee to this breast, / Which like a serpent thou envenomest / As in repayment of the warmth it lent?”
    “Ah dearest, whoso sucks a poisoned wound Envenoms his own veins!”
    “The Kayans of Central Borneo ascribe souls to the trees which yield the poison they use to envenom their arrows.”
  2. (transitive)To acerbate, make bitter.
    “Oh what a world is this, when what is comely Enuenoms him that beares it?”

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Etymology

From Middle English envenymen, from Old French envenimer (“to poison, taint”); equivalent to en- + venom.

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