envenom
Americanverb (used with object)
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to impregnate with venom; make poisonous.
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to embitter.
verb
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to fill or impregnate with venom; make poisonous
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to fill with bitterness or malice
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of envenom
1250–1300; Middle English envenimen < Old French envenimer. See en- 1, venom
Example Sentences
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Still, an ascent by Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler, to a ministerial role would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain its internal Jewish-Arab ties.
From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2022
Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crises of 1912 moreover were not so acute as bitterly to envenom the struggle in the way that happened during the two following years.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
Not merely did they do nothing to lessen the mutual lack of understanding, to limit the spread of hatred; with rare exceptions, they did everything in their power to disseminate hatred and to envenom it.
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
There were private wrongs to envenom the contest, but it was the mercantile quarrel on which the Colonel chose to set his declaration of war.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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