poisoning

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, poison +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

poisoning (countable and uncountable, plural poisonings)

1. The administration of a poison.
   • 2023 March 8, Jen Christensen, “Young children are increasingly victims of opioid epidemic, study finds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.

2. The state of being poisoned.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

Hyponyms

• (administration of a poison): envenomation

Derived terms

• alcohol poisoning
• antipoisoning
• autopoisoning
• blood poisoning
• crowd-poisoning
• data poisoning
• food poisoning
• Georgina poisoning
• lead poisoning
• leather poisoning
• phosphorus poisoning
• poisoning attack
• radiation poisoning
• sausage poisoning
• sun poisoning
• water poisoning

Translations

administration of a poison

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَسْمِيم m (tasmīm)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: атру́чванне n (atrúčvannje)
• Bulgarian: отра́вяне n (otrávjane)
• Catalan: enverinament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) (zhòngdú), 毒害 (zh) (dúhài), 毒死 (zh) (dúsǐ), 毒殺 / 毒杀 (zh) (dúshā)

• Czech: otrava (cs) f
• Danish: forgiftning c
• Dutch: vergiftiging (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: mürgitamine
• Faroese: eitran f
• Finnish: myrkyttäminen (fi)
• French: empoisonnement (fr) m
• Galician: envelenamento (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Vergiftung (de) f
• Haitian Creole: anpwazònman
• Hindi: विषाक्तन m (viṣāktan)
• Hungarian: mérgezés (hu)
• Irish: nimhiú m
• Italian: avvelenamento (it) m
• Japanese: 中毒 (ja) (ちゅうどく, chūdoku), 毒殺 (ja) (どくさつ, dokusatsu), 毒害 (ja) (どくがい, dokugai)
• Korean: 독살 (ko) (doksal), 중독 (ko) (jungdok)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: труење n (truenje)
• Malay: peracunan
• Persian: مسمومیت (fa) (masmumiyyat), تسمیم (tasmim)
• Polish: zatrucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
• Romanian: otrăvire (ro) f
• Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n (otravlénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тровање n

  Roman: trovanje n

• Slovak: otrava (sk) f
• Slovene: zastrupljanje n
• Spanish: envenenar (es)
• Swedish: förgiftning (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: отру́єння (uk) f (otrújennja)

state of being poisoned

• Arabic: تَسَمُّم m (tasammum)
• Belarusian: атру́чванне n (atrúčvannje)
• Bulgarian: отра́вяне n (otrávjane)
• Catalan: enverinament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) (zhòngdú)

• Czech: otrava (cs) f, otrávení n
• Esperanto: veneniĝo
• Estonian: mürgistus, mürgitus
• Finnish: myrkytys (fi)
• French: intoxication (fr) f
• Galician: envelenamento (gl) m
• German: Vergiftung (de) f
• Hindi: विषाक्तन m (viṣāktan), विषाक्तता f (viṣāktatā)
• Hungarian: mérgezés (hu), intoxikáció (hu)
• Indonesian: keracunan (id)
• Irish: nimhiú m
• Japanese: 中毒 (ja) (ちゅうどく, chūdoku)
• Korean: 중독 (ko) (jungdok)
• Macedonian: труење n (truenje)
• Malay: keracunan (ms)
• Polish: zatrucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
• Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n (otravlénije)
• Slovene: zastrupitev (sl) f
• Spanish: envenenamiento (es)
• Ukrainian: отру́єння (uk) f (otrújennja)

Verb

poisoning

1. present participle and gerund of poison

Derived terms

• nonpoisoning