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

Offences are likely to arise in the present world; but let us rather aim to disarm malignity by conciliation, than strengthen and envenom it by resistance.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden