- to put venom or poison on or into; make poisonous
- to fill with hate; embitter
Origin of envenom
Middle English envenimen from Old French envenimerenvenom
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envenom
transitive verb
en·ven·omed, en·ven·om·ing, en·ven·oms- To make poisonous or noxious.
- To embitter.
Origin of envenom
Middle English envenimen to poison from Old French envenimer en- cover with ; see en- 1. venim venom ; see venom .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present envenoms, present participle envenoming, simple past and past participle envenomed)
Origin
From Old French envenimer (“to poison, taint”)
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Sentence Examples
- This document, which confused the political problem with the theological, was bound to envenom the quarrel between emperor and pope beyond all remedy.
- The Jacobins desired the death of Louis, partly because they hated kings and deemed him a traitor, partly because they wished to envenom the Revolution, defy Europe and compromise their more temperate colleagues.