1. poison - Noun
2. poison - Verb
Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
To act as, or convey, a poison.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is only next to God that we can find true and eternal joy. We taste bitter poison when we live apart from sweet Jesus. Paisios of Mount Athos
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Colette
The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison. Armenian Proverb
The army is the poison and the people are the water in which the poison is mixed. Vietnamese Proverb
One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life. Persian Proverb