poison

veneno

Sustancia que puede causar una enfermedad grave o la muerte al entrar en el cuerpo de una persona o animal.

En inglés sencillo: A substance that can make people or animals very ill or kill them if it enters their bodies.

• Keep the poison away from children.
• The bottle contained a deadly poison.
• Doctors gave her medicine after she swallowed poison.

Sinónimos: toxin

Expresiones frecuentes: rat poison, deadly poison, swallow poison, take poison

veneno

Algo que perjudica gravemente a una persona, una relación o una situación.

En inglés sencillo: Something that seriously harms a person, relationship, or situation.

• Hatred is poison to a community.
• Her cruel words spread poison through the family.
• Jealousy became a slow poison in their marriage.

Cómo se usa: poison to something (Constant suspicion is poison to friendship.)

Sinónimos: bane

Expresiones frecuentes: poison to something, spread poison, emotional poison

envenenar

Hacer enfermar o matar a una persona o animal mediante una sustancia tóxica.

En inglés sencillo: To make a person or animal ill, or kill them, through a harmful substance.

• The fumes could poison us.
• Several dogs were poisoned in the park.
• The child was accidentally poisoned by cleaning fluid.

Expresiones frecuentes: poison someone, poison an animal, accidentally poison someone

envenenar

Poner una sustancia tóxica en comida, bebida u otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: To put a harmful substance into food, drink, or something else.

• Someone tried to poison his food.
• She feared that her drink had been poisoned.
• Did they poison the soup?

Expresiones frecuentes: poison someone’s food, poison a drink

contaminar, envenenar

Volver dañinos el aire, el agua o la tierra al introducir sustancias peligrosas.

En inglés sencillo: To make air, water, or land harmful by adding dangerous substances.

• Factory waste poisoned the river.
• These chemicals can poison the soil.
• Smoke from the fire was poisoning the air.

Sinónimos: pollute, contaminate

Antónimos: purify

Expresiones frecuentes: poison the water, poison the soil, poison the air

envenenar, deteriorar

Empeorar mucho una relación, un sentimiento o una situación.

En inglés sencillo: To make a relationship, feeling, or situation much worse.

• Suspicion can poison a friendship.
• His insults poisoned the atmosphere at work.
• Years of resentment had poisoned their marriage.

Sinónimos: damage, ruin, sour

Antónimos: improve

Expresiones frecuentes: poison a relationship, poison the atmosphere, poison a debate

envenenar, corromper

Llenar la mente de alguien de ideas dañinas o sentimientos negativos hacia otras personas.

En inglés sencillo: To fill someone’s mind with harmful ideas or negative feelings about others.

• Those lies poisoned her mind.
• He tried to poison the children against their mother.
• Years of propaganda had poisoned their thinking.

Cómo se usa: poison someone against someone (She tried to poison him against his friends.)

Sinónimos: corrupt

Expresiones frecuentes: poison someone’s mind, poison someone against someone