envenom

Example Sentences

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Still, an ascent by Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler, to a ministerial role would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain its internal Jewish-Arab ties.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why not suppose it was a vile calumny by which some enemy tried to envenom his existence?

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando

To avoid the breach being healed by an apology, many of the crofters sought to envenom the quarrel by refusing to believe that the elder was altogether right.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

I feel moved to say bitter things—to shoot darts in defiance at every glance—to envenom every sentence which I speak.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore