Definition of "cyanide poisoning" []

• Poisoning due to ingesting or inhaling cyanide; common in smoke from fires and in industrial chemicals (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Others met uncomfortable ends, like SS Gruppenführer Paul Greiser, who was paraded around Poznan in a cage before being hanged, and Hans Pruetzmann, the chief of the SS police in the Ukraine, who died in agonies from cyanide poisoning in a dry stomach."