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ptomaine poisoning

noun as in food poisoning

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Maybe I’ll take over a local restaurant, so I can give the entire community ptomaine poisoning.`

Her illness is followed by a mass ptomaine poisoning at a “fashion” lunch.

On assignment in Mexico to round up Geronimo and his band, one officer got “ptomaine poisoning from a can of rancid Armour corned beef,” and another almost died of a tarantula bite.

He said he was suffering from ptomaine poisoning—but his symptoms indicated a nervous collapse.

The image had its roots in a physical purging that Sylvia experienced as a result of ptomaine poisoning that she had contracted on 16 June, during a lunch at an advertising agency.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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