Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to empoison
Participle: empoisoned
Gerund: empoisoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | empoison |
| you | empoison |
| he;she;it | empoisons |
| we | empoison |
| you | empoison |
| they | empoison |
Perfect
| I | have empoisoned |
| you | have empoisoned |
| he;she;it | has empoisoned |
| we | have empoisoned |
| you | have empoisoned |
| they | have empoisoned |
Past
| I | empoisoned |
| you | empoisoned |
| he;she;it | empoisoned |
| we | empoisoned |
| you | empoisoned |
| they | empoisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had empoisoned |
| you | had empoisoned |
| he;she;it | had empoisoned |
| we | had empoisoned |
| you | had empoisoned |
| they | had empoisoned |
Future
| I | will empoison |
| you | will empoison |
| he;she;it | will empoison |
| we | will empoison |
| you | will empoison |
| they | will empoison |
Future Perfect
| I | will have empoisoned |
| you | will have empoisoned |
| he;she;it | will have empoisoned |
| we | will have empoisoned |
| you | will have empoisoned |
| they | will have empoisoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | empoison |
| you | empoison |
| he;she;it | empoison |
| we | empoison |
| you | empoison |
| they | empoison |
Perfect
| I | have empoisoned |
| you | have empoisoned |
| he;she;it | have empoisoned |
| we | have empoisoned |
| you | have empoisoned |
| they | have empoisoned |
Imperfect
| I | empoisoned |
| you | empoisoned |
| he;she;it | empoisoned |
| we | empoisoned |
| you | empoisoned |
| they | empoisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had empoisoned |
| you | had empoisoned |
| he;she;it | had empoisoned |
| we | had empoisoned |
| you | had empoisoned |
| they | had empoisoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would empoison |
| you | would empoison |
| he;she;it | would empoison |
| we | would empoison |
| you | would empoison |
| they | would empoison |
Perfect
| I | would have empoisoned |
| you | would have empoisoned |
| he;she;it | would have empoisoned |
| we | would have empoisoned |
| you | would have empoisoned |
| they | would have empoisoned |
Imperative
| you | empoison |
| we | Let's empoison |
| you | empoison |
Verbs conjugated like 'empoison'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'empoison'
emprison,
impoison,
enprison,
imprison,
poison,
unpoison,
embosom,
empassion,
empose,
emprise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English empoisounen, impoisounen, from Old French empoisoner, equivalent to em- + poison.
Sample Sentences
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And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:]
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She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles, / Infused love among the dainties set, / And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles, / And made each knight himself and God forget. [1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lxv]
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In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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Shooting somebody, empoisoning him or hanging him give quite often more or less the same results. [2000 September 1, Jerzy Karczmarczuk, “Separating algorithms from implementations (long)”, in comp.graphics.algorithms (Usenet):]
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Mag and Maureen do not represent an idealized, sentimentalized mother-and-child relationship; they are two unhappy, malignant harpies tearing and empoisoning each other. [2006, Lilian Chambers, Eamonn Jordan, The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 29:]