Potion vs Poison - What's the difference?
potion | poison |
A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
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
Poison is a related term of potion.
As nouns the difference between potion and poison
is that potion is a small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical while poison is a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.As verbs the difference between potion and poison
is that potion is to drug while poison is to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody.potion
English
(wikipedia potion)Noun
(en noun)- He hoped to win the princess’s heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.
Synonyms
* (l)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.