I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blood poisoning
food poisoning
poison gas
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There are reports that poison gas is being used against the rebels.
poison ivy
poison oak
poison pill
salmonella poisoning
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a case of salmonella poisoning
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deadly
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Cadmium, a deadly poison , exceeded the safe limit by seven times; arsenic by 20 times.
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Warnings of blowfish, which contain deadly poisons in their livers, came to mind.
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Many of the exotic fruits may provide a wonderful meal for the traveller, but some contain a deadly poison .
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Poison cure for wrinkles A DEADLY poison which causes botulism can make people look younger.
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Castor oil comes from the bean but so does a powerful skin irritant, and a deadly poison called ricin.
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For good measure, some varieties contain the deadly poison tetrodotoxin.
■ NOUN
gas
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It's a land where doom hangs upon the air like poison gas .
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At the time, however, I feared poison gas .
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There was fear of poison gas , in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.
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Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.
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If this emission takes place it triggers the breaking of a vial of poison gas which instantaneously kills the cat.
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A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
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Whether it's against poison gas or pollution or radiation he can't say.
ivy
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Even then you'd be a weed or poison ivy .
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A thin waxy slip of poison ivy was entwined around one of the legs.
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What is the poison ivy that so jealously guards our dark fortress?
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The back of his knee itched from poison ivy .
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Garnish with a fruit and a sprig of poison ivy .
oak
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There were casualties: One soldier burned out his chain saw; another got poison oak .
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Fire officials said bee stings and poison oak were the most serious problems.
pen
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Until this business of the poison pen letter is solved, you need to get away from this house.
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They had a poison pen in the works.
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This wasn't just about poison pen letters, and bringing her here for her own safety.
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Instead he had found the poison pen letter that she intended to send to Jessamy.
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Harriet Vane returns to her college for the occasion and finds herself in a maelstrom of obscene graffiti and poison pen letters.
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And she didn't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning.
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He had the feeling that Berowne was in some trouble deeper and more subtly disturbing than poison pen messages.
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It had started with the arrival of that poison pen letter, and ended with that kiss.
pill
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And a firm's environmental history has emerged as another potential poison pill no-one wants to swallow.
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On Wednesday, they threatened to withdraw support for a minimum wage boost if the so-called poison pill amendment passed.
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There were white knights and poison pills , Pac-Man defences and unbundling.
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Most notably, it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills .
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Mackenzie put a poison pill into place, which gave the company 60 days to find another suitor.
rat
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He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes.
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Somewhere in Ohio a doctor has been jailed for feeding rat poison to his colleagues.
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The rat poison and insecticide was taken from a van at Farm lane in Crawley near Witney.
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Gullible hadn't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison .
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Just himself and Eloise, a cleaver, a gun, a spoonful of rat poison .
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Edinburgh Sheriff Court had heard that the boys bought the rat poison from Boots, and offered to cook dinner.
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Underneath the sink he found a large tin of rat poison .
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He would go down into the cellar tomorrow and put down some rat poison .
■ VERB
contain
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Many of the exotic fruits may provide a wonderful meal for the traveller, but some contain a deadly poison .
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Warnings of blowfish, which contain deadly poisons in their livers, came to mind.
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The wings of the monarch butterfly, for example, contain powerful heart-stopping poisons called cardiac glycosides.
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Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot.
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For good measure, some varieties contain the deadly poison tetrodotoxin.
kill
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Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot.
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One ten thousandth of a gram of their poison is enough to kill a man.
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If this emission takes place it triggers the breaking of a vial of poison gas which instantaneously kills the cat.
take
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Rather than face the shame of interrogation, the Phoenix King took poison .
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The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison .
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The defence claimed Mrs Armstrong could have taken the poison herself and committed suicide.
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Or will he be brave enough to take a dose of poison at the last moment?
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It did not take burglars and curious poisons to dispose of him.
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Like taking poison on the border.
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The man was going to be hung, only he took poison first.
use
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They use special poison bait holders called hoppers.
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However, when fighting against another rattlesnake it does not use its poison fangs.
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Extracts from the croton have been used as fish poisons .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
one man's meat is another man's poison
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Nationalism is a poison that has caused much suffering.
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The child was rushed to the hospital after eating rat poison .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the camp, the doctor gave me a choice: rat poison or the stick.
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But then the truth about the massive doses of poison which Allitt administered to those babies in her care was uncovered.
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Cyanide fishermen learn exactly where and when grouper go to spawn; they then squirt their poison with practiced precision.
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He wore a white uniform and carried a spray can of poison with a long wand.
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One side of the apple was white and had no poison .
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Stay calm and keep the child calm: panic speeds poison absorption.
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The circuitry was composed of electric eels, and there were colorful fish and liquid poisons and numerous examples of evil.
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Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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I didn't have time to get paranoid about blood poisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating.
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A report from a consultant pathologist said the cause of Mrs Colbert's death was blood poisoning due to burns.
case
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Usually the organism is helpful, but some strains have been incriminated in widespread cases of food poisoning and even of meningitis.
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The drumbeat of the Gingrich case had poisoned the atmosphere in the House for weeks.
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There were 118 reported cases of food poisoning in Uttlesford last year.
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The death is the first confirmed case of poisoning of a kite in Yorkshire but follows similar cases elsewhere.
food
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Very few food poisoning bacteria grow if they are colder than 5°C and they are killed if heated above 63°C.
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But you and I always will be the final defense against food poisoning for ourselves, our families and our friends.
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Food producers do their best to make sure that food is not contaminated with any food poisoning organisms.
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I told her you had a nasty case of stomach flu and the doctor thought it was probably food poisoning .
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Our Gillian got terrible food poisoning off strange tablet at a Garden Fete once.
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A touch of food poisoning . said Heloise to Abelard.
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Some 640 people suffered illness as a result of food poisoning in the outbreak.
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Four years ago, Johnson contracted food poisoning prior to the Olympics, the illness sapping his strength and ruining his conditioning.
lead
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Swans suffer from lead poisoning that comes from anglers' weights.
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Some historians consider lead poisoning a major cause of the fall of the Roman Empire.
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There was the woman whose daughter was exhibiting signs of lead poisoning .
mind
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I blame myself for looking on and allowing you to poison their minds .
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Well, it takes a poisoner to introduce the poisoned mind to manhood.
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He knows his ex-wife is poisoning the boy's mind .
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The alien contamination has poisoned his mind .
salmonella
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The woman, it seems, has cut eggs from her diet for fear of possible salmonella poisoning .
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She said that it was possible to contract salmonella poisoning and hepatitis from the clams, but no cases had been documented.
water
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The prime minister, Pascoal Mocumbi, said the cause may have been food poisoning , lack of water , or suffocation.
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Nicasio gave Cecilia poisoned water , believing she would reveal his perfidious acts.
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Fumigation will also poison water , food and soil.
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I don't know if any of them could be bribed to poison the water .
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The Myndie Snake would find them and drip venom upon them, poisoning the water and burning them where they hid.
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Led by a madman, the humans have been poisoning the water supply.
well
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They had been drinking out of poisoned wells for days.
■ VERB
die
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More people now die of pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka than from certain important diseases, including malaria.
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A postmortem examination report showed he died from poisoning by carbon monoxide due to inhalation of fumes.
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I then expect I will be tortured, and if they see I don't die they will poison me.
gas
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No soldiers showed clear symptoms of gas poisoning .
try
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Yes, I am always hopelessly trying to poison myself against her.
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Maybe that was why he was trying to poison Elinor?
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For a moment he could not quite think why he was trying to poison Elinor.
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Slowly and deliberately, Fagin was trying to poison the young boy's mind.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A small amount of lead paint can severely poison a child.
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Chemical waste has poisoned the city's water supply.
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For over a year, Jane fought against the cancer that had poisoned her blood.
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He believed that somebody was trying to poison him.
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Hill poisoned her husband and daughter for the insurance money.
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Kendall believes that sex on TV is poisoning our children's minds.
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Our marriage was poisoned by mistrust, deceit and jealousy.
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Seabirds are being poisoned by toxins in the water.
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She had already poisoned three members of her own family with arsenic.
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Steven thought that someone had poisoned his food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sacrificed the end, doubtful in any case at that time, be-cause bad means would poison it.
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In a short time, his appointment has come to look like a poisoned chalice.
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It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.
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She plotted a new method to kill Snow White: with a poisoned comb.
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The yeast must be pure, or the stars would be poisoned.
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When they toasted, she exchanged her cup for his, and he drained the poisoned wine.