envenom
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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
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 Francis Augustus Cox
At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases—those of private life as well as those which envenom the wounded soldier on the battlefield.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
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 Walter Lionel George
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