English
Noun
poisoning (countable and uncountable , plural poisonings )
The administration of a poison .
The state of being poisoned .
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects ”, in The Economist , volume 411 , number 8884 :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
Translations
administration of a poison
Arabic: تَسْمِيم m ( tasmīm )
Belarusian: атру́чванне n ( atrúčvannje )
Bulgarian: отравяне n ( otravjane )
Catalan: enverinament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) ( zhòngdú ) , 毒害 (zh) ( dúhài ) , 毒死 (zh) ( dúsǐ ) , 毒殺 / 毒杀 (zh) ( dúshā ) , 毒杀 (zh) ( dúshā )
Danish: forgiftning c
Dutch: vergiftiging (nl)
Faroese: eitran f
Finnish: myrkyttäminen (fi)
French: empoisonnement (fr) m
German: Vergiftung (de) f
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Haitian Creole: anpwazònman
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 )
Malay: peracunan
Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n ( otravlénije )
Spanish: envenenar (es)
Swedish: förgiftning (sv) c
Ukrainian: отру́єння (uk) f ( otrújennja )
Verb
poisoning
present participle of poison
Derived terms