poisoning

English

Noun

poisoning (countable and uncountable, plural poisonings)

The administration of a poison.
The state of being poisoned.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
  Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

Hyponyms

(administration of a poison): envenomation

Translations

administration of a poison

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: تَسْمِيم‎ m (tasmīm)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: атру́чванне n (atrúčvannje)
Bulgarian: отра́вяне n (otrávjane)
Catalan: enverinament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) (zhòngdú), 毒害 (zh) (dúhài), 毒死 (zh) (dúsǐ), 毒殺／毒杀 (zh) (dúshā)
Czech: otrava (cs) f
Danish: forgiftning c
Dutch: vergiftiging (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: mürgitamine
Faroese: eitran f
Finnish: myrkyttäminen (fi)
French: empoisonnement (fr) m
Galician: envelenamento (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Vergiftung (de) f
Haitian Creole: anpwazònman
Hindi: विषाक्तन m (viṣāktan)
Hungarian: mérgezés (hu)
Irish: nimhiú m
Italian: avvelenamento (it) m
Japanese: 中毒 (ja) (ちゅうどく, chūdoku), 毒殺 (ja) (どくさつ, dokusatsu), 毒害 (ja) (どくがい, dokugai)
Korean: 독살 (ko) (doksal), 중독 (ko) (jungdok)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: труење n (truenje)
Malay: peracunan
Persian: مسمومیت‎ (fa), تسمیم‎ (tasmim)
Polish: zatrucie (pl) n
Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
Romanian: otrăvire (ro) f
Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n (otravlénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тровање n
Roman: trovanje n
Slovak: otrava (sk) f
Slovene: zastrupljanje n
Spanish: envenenar (es)
Swedish: förgiftning (sv) c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: отру́єння (uk) f (otrújennja)

state of being poisoned

Arabic: تَسَمُّم‎ m (tasammum)
Belarusian: атру́чванне n (atrúčvannje)
Bulgarian: отра́вяне n (otrávjane)
Catalan: enverinament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中毒 (zh) (zhòngdú)
Czech: otrava (cs) f, otrávení n
Esperanto: veneniĝo
Estonian: mürgistus, mürgitus
Finnish: myrkytys (fi)
French: intoxication (fr) f
Galician: envelenamento (gl) m
German: Vergiftung (de) f
Hungarian: mérgezés (hu), intoxikáció
Irish: nimhiú m
Japanese: 中毒 (ja) (ちゅうどく, chūdoku)
Korean: 중독 (ko) (jungdok)
Macedonian: труење n (truenje)
Malay: keracunan (ms)
Polish: zatrucie (pl) n
Portuguese: envenenamento (pt) m
Russian: отравле́ние (ru) n (otravlénije)
Slovene: zastrupitev (sl) f
Spanish: envenenamiento (es)
Ukrainian: отру́єння (uk) f (otrújennja)

Verb

poisoning

present participle of poison

Derived terms

blood poisoning
food poisoning