empoison
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To poison.
Example Sentences
- "And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn"
- "She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles, / Infused love among the dainties set, / And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles, / And made each knight himself and God forget."
- "In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede."
- "Shooting somebody, empoisoning him or hanging him give quite often more or less the same results."
- "Mag and Maureen do not represent an idealized, sentimentalized mother-and-child relationship; they are two unhappy, malignant harpies tearing and empoisoning each other."
Etymology
From Middle English empoisounen, impoisounen, from Old French empoisoner, equivalent to em- + poison.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: em
- Root: empoisounen, empoisoner