Other forms: poisonings
Poisoning is harm caused by swallowing or breathing something toxic. Food poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, treat the poisoning.
Carbon monoxide is the dangerous one at home because it has no smell and the early signs look like flu — an alarm is the only reliable protection. In any suspected case, call for medical advice rather than trying to make somebody sick.
1nounpoisoningHarm caused by swallowing or breathing something toxic.
“The whole family was taken to hospital with food poisoning after eating bad seafood.”
poisoning is a harm.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₃-
Latin
pōtio — drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion
Old French
poison
Middle English
poysoun
English
poison
English, today
poisoning
Built from
by surface analysis, poison + -ing. poison comes from Middle English poysoun, poyson, pusoun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtio (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“to drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root). Mostly displaced native Old English ātor and lybb. See more at atter.
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