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

I will not attempt to perpetuate and envenom the warfare which divides them, complacently designating the differences which separate them, without taking an account of the community of method which unites them.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

The irritation of children can envenom two lives, for it seems almost inevitable that each party should think the other spoils or tyrannizes.

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel

"Do you think that feminine malice cannot contrive to envenom a dozen stings that I could not explain if I would, and you could not deal with if I did?"

From Across the Zodiac by Greg, Percy