venom

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ven=om
• COUNT in NET: 5 in 5 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

venom, n. [OE. venim, OF. venim, venin, F. venin, L. venenum. Cf. Venenate.].

•  Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by biting or stinging.  [1913 Webster]

  "Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites."  [1913 Webster]
•  Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.

venom, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare. See Venom, n.].

 To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

venom, n.
1 a poisonous fluid secreted by snakes, scorpions, etc., usu. transmitted by a bite or sting.
2 malignity; virulence of feeling, language, or conduct.

Derivative

venomed adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF venim, var. of venin ult. f. L venenum poison

THESAURUS

venom

abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity, animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity, bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling, bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil, damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant, evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant, fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings, harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt, ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency, infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury, insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide, mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage, pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor, rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic, systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant, toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta, venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence, virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

venom

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.