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Definition of Poisoned
1. Adjective. (context: of a living thing) Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of food or drink) Containing poison. ¹
3. Adjective. (chess of a pawn) Such that its capture will lessen the capturing player's chance of winning. ¹
4. Verb. (past of poison) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Poisoned
1. poison [v] - See also: poison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisoned
Literary usage of Poisoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"It remains for every one who is convinced of these facts to draw from them such
inference« as appear to him most truthful and logical On the poisoned Arrows ..."
2. Belden, the White Chief: Or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains by George Pfauts Belden (1875)
"... BUT PROFITABLE BUSINESS—WAR ARROWS—A DEADLY SHAFT—THE TERRIBLE poisoned ARROW
HOW IT IS poisoned DISUSE OF THE poisoned ARROW—THE REASON WHY—SIGNAL ..."
3. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... and the bush antelope—Our cook, Jabu, shot dead by a poisoned arrow—Panga
Falls—Further casualties by the ..."
4. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... and the bush antelope—Our cook, Jabu, shot dead by a poisoned arrow—Punga
Falls—Further casualties by the ..."
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