Venom \Ven"om\, n. [OE. venim, OF. venim, venin, F. venin, L.
venenum. Cf. Venenate.]
1. Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly,
the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as
serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of
health, and communicate by biting or stinging.
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Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. --Milton.
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2. Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. --Chaucer. "The
venom of such looks." --Shak.
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Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Venom \Ven"om\, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare.
See Venom, n.]
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed
vengeance." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
venom
n 1: toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and
poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
2: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness,
spite, spitefulness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "venom":
abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity,
animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity,
bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling,
bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb,
carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant,
chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability,
contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil,
damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation,
destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant,
evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant,
fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings,
harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt,
ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency,
infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury,
insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice,
maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide,
mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness,
organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage,
pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor,
rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide,
roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness,
spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic,
systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant,
toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta,
venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence,
virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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