different between poisoned vs venenate

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: poi?z?nd, IPA^(key): /?p??zn?d/
• Hyphenation: poi?soned

Adjective

poisoned (comparative more poisoned, superlative most poisoned)

1. (of a living thing) Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.
2. (of food or drink, toxicology) Containing poison.
3. (chess, of a pawn) Such that its capture will lead to the capturing piece being trapped, thus reducing the capturing player's winning chances.

Derived terms

• poisoned chalice

Translations

Verb

poisoned

1. simple past tense and past participle of poison

Anagrams

• Poseidon

English

Etymology

Latin venenatus, past participle of venenare (“to poison”), from venenum (“poison, venom”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?v?n?ne?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?v?n?n?t/

Verb

venenate (third-person singular simple present venenates, present participle venenating, simple past and past participle venenated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To poison; to infect with poison.
   • 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague

     assume a venene nature , which expiring infecd and venenate the Air

Adjective

venenate (comparative more venenate, superlative most venenate)

1. (obsolete) poisoned
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     They give this in Fevers after Calcination, by which means the venenate Parts are carried off

References

venenate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Esperanto

Adverb

venenate

1. present adverbial passive participle of veneni

Latin

Adjective

ven?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ven?n?tus