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What is the adjective for poisoning?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb poison which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

poisoned
  1. (of a living thing) Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.
  2. (of food or drink) Containing poison.
  3. (pawn) Such that its capture will lessen the capturing player's chance of winning.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The first attempt at murder fails when Arden refuses to drink a poisoned broth prepared by Alice.”
      “Tests indicate that the air is poisoned with contaminants.”
      “He wrapped his poisoned feet in goatskins and then made the two remaining Albanians tow him along the ground on his duffle coat.”
poisonous
  1. Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous
  2. (of an animal) Inedible due to containing poison; poisonous to eat
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Under either standard, the government must prove that the food itself probably will, or may, injure health, not merely that it contains a poisonous substance.”
      “He talked at some length about how the atmosphere was now more poisonous than he had ever seen.”
      “Their eggs are large, green, and poisonous to warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans.”
poisonable
  1. Capable of being poisoned.
  2. (obsolete) poisonous
poisonlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of poison.
poisonsome
  1. (obsolete) poisonous
poisonless
  1. Without poison.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “My backyard garden is filled with a variety of beautiful, poisonless flowers, making it a safe haven for both humans and wildlife.”
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