1
as in poison
a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing
an antidote to snake venom
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2
as in malice
the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
a neighborhood gossip of such venom that she was feared by all and genuinely liked by no one
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Recent Examples of venom
Natural products inspired by organisms include GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss, spider and snake venoms, and compounds from plants and fungi with potential uses in pain relief and cancer treatment.
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Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
Toxins in many animal venoms, for example, are peptides.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Treasury secretary blasts 'venom' from left after deadly Mar-a-Lago incident.
—FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026
The Mad Monarch of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculed worldwide as the babbling fool and face of Satan whose venom is deadly and far-reaching.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
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Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
Toxins in many animal venoms, for example, are peptides.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Treasury secretary blasts 'venom' from left after deadly Mar-a-Lago incident.
—FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026
The Mad Monarch of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculed worldwide as the babbling fool and face of Satan whose venom is deadly and far-reaching.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venom
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Drawing this degraded, sour crude is akin to pumping industrial poison through our midstream and downstream networks.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Calls to poison centers in the United States about the widely available herb kratom increased more than 1,200% between 2015 and 2025, new research has found.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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Officers arrested Granger on Tuesday and charged him with rape, aggravated assault, malice murder, and two counts of felony murder.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Peterson said there was no evidence of malice by Dance and that good faith is presumed for public officers.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Mar. 2026
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Taking supporting women’s wrongs—and rights—to new levels, everyone’s favorite toxic on-screen Girl Boss duo are back for a fourth season of Industry: Harper Stern and Yasmin Kara-Hanani.—
Chloe Laws,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Michigan Legislature passed a law in 2008 meant to protect the public from harmful electronic waste toxics.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 Dec. 2025
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What was disturbing were people who sped past a foot away from elderly people, shouting obscenities with faces twisted in hatred.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Këkht Aräkh is not unique in his loneliness; the pain of being alone is as thematically central to DSBM as the hatred of Christianity.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
31 Mar. 2026
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Eventually an eye infection took her to a doctor who diagnosed her with an autoimmune disease.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Scientists were searching for a new breed of pear tree resistant to a nasty fungus called fire blight, a disease that can decimate crops.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
1 Apr. 2026
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There certainly are harmful chemicals, carcinogens, toxins, heavy metals, respiratory irritants and other things inside of there that certainly can cause immediate harm.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Anthrax bacteria can cleave vital proteins with toxins and wreak havoc on their cellular adversaries.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Venom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venom. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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