Poison vs Degrade - What's the difference?
poison | degrade | Synonyms |
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
To lower in value or social position.
* Palfrey
To reduce in quality or purity.
(geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Poison is a synonym of degrade.
As verbs the difference between poison and degrade
is that poison is to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody while degrade is .As a noun poison
is a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.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.
Synonyms
* (to pollute) contaminate, pollute, taint * (to cause to become worse) corrupt, taintDerived terms
* lead poisoning * poisoned chalice * radiation poisoningReferences
* * 1000 English basic words ----degrade
English
Verb
(degrad)- Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
- Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
- The DNA sample has degraded .