POISONING Synonyms: 128 Similar and Opposite Words

poisoning

verb

present participle of poison

as in tainting

to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable poisoning the minds of impressionable children with ethnic hatred

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as in polluting

to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable exhaust fumes poisoning the air

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as in degrading

to lower in character, dignity, or quality this party partisanship poisons the national debate we should be having about this urgent problem

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as in turning

to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge malicious rumors had poisoned many church members against the new pastor

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Recent Examples of poisoning The young woman who sojourned to Oberlin College, where she was wrongfully accused of poisoning her classmates and beaten half to death, who raised her hands in defense of herself, then went on to grip clay and rock and chisel to re-create visions of justice. —

Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026 Protesters, however, say that HERC, which neighbors Target Field near the North Loop neighborhood, is responsible for essentially poisoning people who live nearby. —

Conor Wight, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 In the Middle Ages, local churchgoers whispered of clannish Jews poisoning wells to kill Christian children and steal their blood for their rituals. —

Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 After Kouri Richins was charged with murder for fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl, a friend of the Utah mother of three had a difficult time reconciling that. —

Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026 Chronic mold poisoning our children. —

Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026 Through the years, there have been more oil spills, but also toxic algae blooms poisoning sea creatures with domoic acid and disease outbreaks, unusual stranding events that would fill the center to maximum capacity. —

Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026 Condors vanished from the state’s North Coast after the arrival of European settlers, who killed other animals with lead bullets and strychnine — poisoning the raptors that feed on carrion. —

Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026 At the time of the two incidents, Werking and Fine Moses were both representing James Craig, the Aurora dentist who was charged at the time with — and has since been convicted of — poisoning his wife to death. —

Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026

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At a time of intensifying divisions at home, a depiction of Ecuador could offer an Edenic, new-world landscape free from the partisanship tainting Church’s New England landscapes.

— Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Now, streaming is tainting the postseason.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026