Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to poison
Participle: poisoned
Gerund: poisoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | poison |
| you | poison |
| he;she;it | poisons |
| we | poison |
| you | poison |
| they | poison |
Perfect
| I | have poisoned |
| you | have poisoned |
| he;she;it | has poisoned |
| we | have poisoned |
| you | have poisoned |
| they | have poisoned |
Past
| I | poisoned |
| you | poisoned |
| he;she;it | poisoned |
| we | poisoned |
| you | poisoned |
| they | poisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had poisoned |
| you | had poisoned |
| he;she;it | had poisoned |
| we | had poisoned |
| you | had poisoned |
| they | had poisoned |
Future
| I | will poison |
| you | will poison |
| he;she;it | will poison |
| we | will poison |
| you | will poison |
| they | will poison |
Future Perfect
| I | will have poisoned |
| you | will have poisoned |
| he;she;it | will have poisoned |
| we | will have poisoned |
| you | will have poisoned |
| they | will have poisoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | poison |
| you | poison |
| he;she;it | poison |
| we | poison |
| you | poison |
| they | poison |
Perfect
| I | have poisoned |
| you | have poisoned |
| he;she;it | have poisoned |
| we | have poisoned |
| you | have poisoned |
| they | have poisoned |
Imperfect
| I | poisoned |
| you | poisoned |
| he;she;it | poisoned |
| we | poisoned |
| you | poisoned |
| they | poisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had poisoned |
| you | had poisoned |
| he;she;it | had poisoned |
| we | had poisoned |
| you | had poisoned |
| they | had poisoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would poison |
| you | would poison |
| he;she;it | would poison |
| we | would poison |
| you | would poison |
| they | would poison |
Perfect
| I | would have poisoned |
| you | would have poisoned |
| he;she;it | would have poisoned |
| we | would have poisoned |
| you | would have poisoned |
| they | would have poisoned |
Imperative
| you | poison |
| we | Let's poison |
| you | poison |
Verbs conjugated like 'poison'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'poison'
poyson,
prison,
empoison,
impoison,
person,
piston,
piton,
poise,
potion,
sponson,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1230, "a deadly potion," from O.Fr.
puison (12c.) "a drink," later "a potion, poisonous drink" (14c.), from L.
potionem (nom.
potio) "a drink," also "poisonous drink," from
potare "to drink" (see potion). Slang sense of "alcoholic drink" first attested 1805, Amer.Eng. The verb is c.1300, from the noun.
Poison ivy first recorded 1784;
poison oak is from 1743.
Poison gas first recorded 1915.
Poison-pen is from 1914.
2. From Middle English poysoun, poyson, pusoun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtiōnem (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“to drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root). Mostly displaced native Old English ātor and lybb. See more at atter. See: Latin '
pōtio'.
Sample Sentences
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The assassin poisoned the king.
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That factory is poisoning the river.
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Suspicion will poison their relationship.
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He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
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She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
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In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages. [2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93:]