Synonyms for poisoning
poi·son·ing

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1. poisoning, toxic condition, intoxicationnoun

   the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

   Synonyms:
   inebriety, drunkenness, inebriation, intoxication, insobriety, tipsiness, toxic condition

2. poisoningnoun

   the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill

   Synonyms:
   intoxication, toxic condition

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1. • Killing
   • Physical Condition

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1. poisoningnoun

   Synonyms:
   toxication, venenation, autotoxication (self-poisoning), tainting, vitiation, infection

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1. List of paraphrases for "poisoning":

   intoxication, poisonings, poison, poisoned

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1. Donald Trump:

   The drug epidemic is poisoning too many American lives, and we’re going to stop it in many different ways. One of them will be the wall.

2. Anatoly Kalinichenko:

   We don't believe that the patient suffered poisoning, poisons or traces of their presence in the body have not been identified. Probably, the diagnosis of 'poisoning' remains somewhere in the back of our minds. But we do not believe that the patient suffered poisoning.

3. Mark Galeotti:

   We have to have the caution that this could be just a particularly bad form of food poisoning, but this does certainly bear all the hallmarks of what the Russians call ‘wet work,’ or an assassination attempt.

4. Chris Hartline:

   Thirty years ago, Bill Nelson said he was going to fight to stop the poisoning of lakes and streams across Sunshine State and fix Lake Okeechobee, and he kept talking for 30 years, but nothing got done.

5. Melissa Mays Melissa Mays:

   That's criminal. I'm sorry. There's no other word for it, the fact that they took away my right as a mother to protect my children because they chose to cover up and lie instead of fixing the problem or at least addressing it, they chose to hide it from us and then we ended up poisoning our children. And there's nothing they can say or do that will take that away and fix it.