Venom

['venəm] or ['vɛnəm]

Definition

(noun.) toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions).

Typist: Rebecca--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.

(n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.

(n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Poison (naturally secreted by certain animals), VIRUS, bane.[2]. Malignity, maliciousness, malice, spite, spitefulness, gall, rancor, rankling, grudge, bitterness, acerbity, acrimony, malevolence, hate, ill-will.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Poison, virus, malice, malignity, spite

ANT:Antidote,[See GRAVE_and_FOOLISH]

Checker: Raymond

Definition

n. any drink juice or liquid injurious or fatal to life: poison: spite: malice.—adj. (Shak.) venomous poisonous.—v.t. to infect with poison.—n. Ven′om-duct in a poisonous animal the duct conveying venom from the sac or gland where it is secreted to the tooth or venom-fang whence it is discharged.—adjs. Ven′om-mouthed having a venomous mouth: (Shak.) slanderous; Ven′omous poisonous: spiteful: mischievous.—adv. Ven′omously.—n. Ven′omousness.

Typist: Wanda