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poisoning

noun
/ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, poison + -ing.

Definitions

  1. The administration of a poison.

    • The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.

  2. The state of being poisoned.

  3. present participle and gerund of poison

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poisoning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA