poison

毒

体内に入ると、人や動物を重い病気にしたり死なせたりする物質。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： toxin

よく使う表現： rat poison, deadly poison, swallow poison, take poison

毒

人や人間関係、状況に深刻な害を与えるもの。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： poison to something (Constant suspicion is poison to friendship.)

類義語： bane

よく使う表現： poison to something, spread poison, emotional poison

中毒にする、毒殺する

毒となる物質で、人や動物を病気にしたり死なせたりする。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： poison someone, poison an animal, accidentally poison someone

毒を入れる、毒を盛る

食べ物や飲み物などに、毒となる物質を加える。

やさしい英語で： 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?

よく使う表現： poison someone’s food, poison a drink

汚染する

危険な物質を加えて、空気や水、土を有害にする。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： pollute, contaminate

反対語： purify

よく使う表現： poison the water, poison the soil, poison the air

悪化させる、損なう

人間関係や感情、状況を大きく悪化させる。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： damage, ruin, sour

反対語： improve

よく使う表現： poison a relationship, poison the atmosphere, poison a debate

悪影響を与える、毒する

人の心を有害な考えや他人への悪感情で満たす。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： poison someone against someone (She tried to poison him against his friends.)

類義語： corrupt

よく使う表現： poison someone’s mind, poison someone against someone