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

"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

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