Poisoner

Definition

poison /'pↄÇzn/ n [C,U] ၁။ အဆိပ္။ rat poison ❍ poison for killing weeds ❍ commit suicide by taking poison ❍ a poison pill ❍ poison gas (ie esp as used to kill people in war). ၂။ အႏၲရာယ္။ ၿဂိဳဟ္ဆိုး။ the poison of racial hatred ❍ He can be absolute poison! v ~ sb/ sth (with sth) ၁။ (က) အဆိပ္ေကြၽးသည္။ အဆိပ္မိ သည္။ His wife poisoned him with arsenic. ❍ are our children being poisoned by lead in the atmosphere? (ခ) အဆိပ္တက္သည္။ အဆိပ္လူးသည္။ အဆိပ္ခတ္သည္။ a poisoned foot ❍ a poisoned arrow/ dart ❍ These companies are poisoning our rivers (with chemical waste). ၂။ (က) မိႈင္းတိုက္သည္။ poison sb's mind with propaganda. (ခ) ကဖ်က္ယဖ်က္လုပ္သည္။ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ a quarrel which poisoned our friendship. ❏ a poisoned chalice [ IDM ] အေပၚယံေရႊမႈန္ႀကဲ အထဲက ႏြားေခ်းခံ။ As the war became more unpopular the job of Foreign Secretary began to seem more like a poisoned chalice. ❏ poisoner /'pↄÇzǝnǝ(r)/ n အဆိပ္ခတ္သတ္သူ။ ❏ poisoning /'pↄÇzǝnÇŋ/ n [U,C] အဆိပ္ခတ္ျခင္း (သို႔) အဆိပ္မိျခင္း။ lead poisoning (ie poisoning by lead 3 (၁)). See also BLOOD-POISONING, FOOD POISONING ❏ poisonous /'pↄÇzǝnǝs/ adj ၁။ (က) အဆိပ္ရိွေသာ။ poisonous snakes/ insects ❍ a lizard with a poisonous bite. (ခ) အဆိပ္ရိွေသာ။ ေတာက္တတ္ေသာ။ poisonous plants/ chemicals. ၂။ ( derog ) (က) ဣႆာမစၧရိယစိတ္ ပြားေစတတ္ေသာ။ the poisonous doctrine of racial superiority. (ခ) မစၧရိယစိတ္ မ်ားေသာ။ sb with a poisonous tongue (ie who spreads bad or false rumours about people). ❏ poison- pen letter n မလိုမုန္းထားစိတ္ျဖင့္ ေရးေသာစာ။

Examples

1. Some mushrooms contain poison.
2. Rat poison (=poison used for killing rats)
3. Capitalism is regarded as a poison that is destroying the traditional way of life.
4. The look she gave me was pure poison.