noun
- the act or process of poisoning or contaminating something
Usage: archaic or literary
verb
- present participle of empoison; to poison or contaminate; to make bitter or harmful
Usage: archaic or literary; transitive verb
Examples
- The empoisoning of the well threatened the entire village's water supply.
- He accused his rival of empoisoning the king's mind against him.
- The scandal was empoisoning public trust in the institution.
- Medieval texts describe empoisoning as a method of assassination.
- Rumors were empoisoning the atmosphere at the company.
- The toxic waste was empoisoning the river ecosystem.