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venom | hulk |

As nouns the difference between venom and hulk

is that venom is a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter while hulk is a person resembling, especially physically, the hulk in the marvel comics universe.

As a verb venom

is to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

As a proper noun hulk is

(comics) a fictional comic-book character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

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.
    ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (head)
  • poison, venom

    • See also

    * venen * venod

    hulk

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
  • (archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
  • A big (and possibly clumsy) person
  • (bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person
    • Quotations
    ;large ship, difficult to maneuver * 1602 , Shakespeare, , act ii, scene 3 *: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. ;non-functioning, floating ship * 1918 , , Prelude'', as printed in ''Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics (2002), paperback, page 83 *: They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks .

    Etymology 2

    Compare Middle Low German holken to hollow out, and similar Swedish word.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
    • to hulk a hare
    (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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