Definition of "envenoms" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envenom. (verb)

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• "If only — and this thought must afflict many others who now write about Eastern Europe — one could be transported to that brilliant, polyglot little city as it was, say, thirty-five years ago, how much of the mystery which both swaddles and envenoms the relations of Poles and Lithuanians and Russians and Byelorussians and Jews would make sense at last!"
• "No; it envenoms it, converts natural desire into a morbid obsession and makes it the dominant passion."
• "There are on earth no actors too humble and obscure not to have a gallery; that gallery which envenoms the play by stealthy jeers, counsels of anger, amused comments or words of perfidious compassion."