envenom
Example Sentences
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Still, an ascent by Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler, to a ministerial role would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain its internal Jewish-Arab ties.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022
Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
This report of his Did Hamlet so envenom with his Enuy, That he could nothing doe but wish and begge, Your sodaine comming ore to play with him; Now out of this Laer.
From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William
To all the passions which usually envenom contests among countrymen, avarice was added, and rendered their enmity more rancorous.
Mothers of families, dowagers who had granddaughters to establish, young girls jealous of Natalie, whose elegance and tyrannical beauty annoyed them, took pains to envenom this opinion with treacherous remarks.
From The Marriage Contract by Balzac, Honoré de
