impoison

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMPOIS'ON, verb transitive s as z. [See Poison.] 1. To poison; to impregnate with poison; to corrupt with poison. 2. To embitter; to impair; as, grief impoisons the pleasures of life. 3. To kill with poison.
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