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
It requires but a few drops of poison to envenom a whole well.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
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
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
