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Detestation vs Venom - What's the difference?

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Detestation is a related term of venom.


As nouns the difference between detestation and venom

is that detestation is hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence while venom is a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter.

As a verb venom is

to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

detestation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
  • Something detested.
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    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”}}

    venom

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia venom) (en noun)
  • A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter.
  • * Milton
    • Hurtful worm with cankered venom bites.
  • (figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the venom of such looks

    Derived terms

    * nonvenomous * venomous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
    • Venomed vengeance. — Shakespeare.
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    Noun

    (head)
  • poison, venom

    • See also

    * venen * venod