Crossword-Solution: POISON 6 letters, 91 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Poison n. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism,
is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it;
as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
Poison n. That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as,
the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
Poison n. To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to
poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
Poison n. To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
Poison n. To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons
happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
Poison v. i. To act as, or convey, a poison.

We have 91 clues for the answer “POISON”

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Cause of death in some cozy mysteries 1 answer
Lethal stuff 1 answer
It's toxic 1 answer
It may feature Mr. Yuk on its label 1 answer
Hemlock, for example. 1 answer
Feature of many a whodunit 1 answer
Exterminator's option 1 answer
Every Rose Has Its Thorn monster-balladeers 1 answer
Downfall in many an Agatha Christie novel 1 answer
Deadly substance 1 answer
Lethal substance 1 answer
Cause of Romeo's death 1 answer
CYANIDE 1 answer
Bottle marked with a skull and crossbones 1 answer
Borgia potion 1 answer
Arsenic, but not old lace 1 answer
Arrow application 1 answer
Another man's meat 1 answer
"That girl is ___" (Bell Biv DeVoe lyric) 1 answer
Staple of Agatha Christie mysteries 1 answer
substance that kills or injures when swallowed or absorbed 1 answer
kills romeo 1 answer
Word seen on a skull and crossbones 1 answer
What Mr. Yuk labels 1 answer
Warning label word 1 answer
Toxicant 1 answer
Toxic thing 1 answer
Substance symbolized by a skull and crossbones 1 answer
ASPHYXIANT 1 answer
Something harmful 1 answer
Skull-and-crossbones stuff 1 answer
Scull-and-crossbones stuff 1 answer
One of the nine weapons in 2008's expanded version of Clue 1 answer
Negative influence 1 answer
Name yer --- 1 answer
Murder method in Christie's "A Pocket Full of Rye" 1 answer
Malignant substance 1 answer
highly toxic substance 2 answers
Toxicology topic 2 answers
Strychnine e.g. 2 answers
Strychnine 2 answers
Toxin. 2 answers
Whodunit weapon 2 answers
NOXIOUS substance 2 answers
NOXIOUS material 2 answers
Arsenic e.g. 2 answers
Whodunit item 2 answers
Arsenic, for one. 2 answers
Make toxic 2 answers
nucleonics 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POISON (5)

These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The Serpent, irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the drinking horn of the countryman.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Not for some far-off kinsman, but myself, Shall I expel this poison in the blood; For whoso slew that king might have a mind To strike me too with his assassin hand.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Dames of elevated rank, likewise, whose doors she entered in the way of her occupation, were accustomed to distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer’s defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with POISON (3)

I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it. My heart has been rent and joined again; My heart has been broken and again made whole; My heart has been wounded and healed again; A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet. I went through hell and saw there love…
Hazrat Inayat Khan The Dance of the Soul
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
Stefan Molyneux
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 50 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).