Intoxicate vs Poison - What's the difference?
intoxicate | poison |
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
(obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
* Chapman
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
Something that harms a person or thing.
(informal) A drink; liquor.
To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
To cause something to become much worse
To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
As verbs the difference between intoxicate and poison
is that intoxicate is to stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol while poison is to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody.As an adjective intoxicate
is (obsolete) intoxicated.As a noun poison is
a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.intoxicate
English
Verb
(intoxicat)Synonyms
* (to stupefy) inebriateAdjective
(en adjective)- Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.
Anagrams
*poison
English
(wikipedia poison)Noun
(en noun)- We used a poison to kill the weeds.
- Gossip is a malicious poison .
- - What's your poison ?
- - I'll have a glass of whisky.
Synonyms
* (substance that is harmful) atter, bane, contaminant, pollutant, toxin, venomDerived terms
* poison gas * poison hemlock * poison ivy * poison oak * poison-pen letter * poison pill * poison sumac * poisoner * poisoning * poisonous * poisonwood * rat poison * what's your poisonVerb
(en verb)- The assassin poisoned the king.
- That factory is poisoning the river.
- Suspicion will poison their relationship.
- He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
- She's poisoned him against all his old friends.