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Plural of poison

regular plural

The plural of poison is poisons.

Forms of poison

Singularpoison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/
Pluralpoisons
Countablecountable and uncountable

Poisons in a sentence

  • The temperature effect of poisons.2013, Huazhang Liu, Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts: Innovation and Practice, page 693
  • In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93
  • She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.From the entry camp
  • Seizures can be caused by exposure to certain poisons or toxins.From the entry seizure
  • Theriac was essentially homeopathic in its supposed function, being an improvement on mithridate by virtue of containing more poisons.From the entry theriac

Meaning of poison

  1. noun A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
  2. noun Anything harmful to a person or thing.
  3. noun An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?").

Full definition of poison

Questions about the plural of poison

What is the plural of poison?
The plural of poison is poisons.
Is poison countable?
Poison is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poison (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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