Synonyms of the word

poison

• n. A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
• n. Something that harms a person or thing.
• n. (informal) A drink; liquor.
• v. (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody.
• v. (transitive) To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to become much worse.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debauch

• n. An individual act of debauchery.
• n. An orgy.
• v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
• v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

deprave

• v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
• v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

destructiveness

• n. the state or quality of being destructive.

dose

• n. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
• n. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
• n. A venereal infection.
• v. to administer a dose.
• v. to prescribe a dose.

drug

• n. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in…
• n. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use,…
• n. Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
• n. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
• v. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
• v. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
• v. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of drag.
• n. (obsolete) A drudge.

envenom

• v. To poison, to put or inject venom onto or into.
• v. To acerbate.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

misdirect

• v. To direct something wrongly.
• v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

toxicant

• adj. Capable of causing damage by poisoning.
• n. A toxic or poisonous substance.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.