POISON

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poison I. substantiv

otravă, venin;

to hate like poison a urî de moarte;

cumulative / slow poison otravă lentă (care este eficace după doze repetate).

poison II. verb tranzitiv

1. a otrăvi (şi fig.), a învenina; a strica, a corupe, a perverti.

2. a intoxica.

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The most common symptoms of CO poisoning are: • Headache • Dizziness • Weakness • Nausea • Vomiting • Chest pain • Confusion

(Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Do you think it is poisoned?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Of course, I could not listen to the details without feeling assured that my poison had been used.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was past both Colleges, Mr. Chillip said, and the Hall could only poison him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to work.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Too late! I took the poison before I left my hiding-place. My head swims! I am going! I charge you, sir, to remember the packet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He assured me upon his honour “that he was not poisoned, but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

How about poison?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He lies under suspicion of having poisoned the stable-boy, he was undoubtedly out in the storm, he was armed with a heavy stick, and his cravat was found in the dead man’s hand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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