envenenar

From en- +‎ veneno (“poison”) +‎ -ar. Compare Latin venenāre. Compare Italian avvelenare, Romanian învenina, Spanish envenenar.

• Hyphenation: en‧ve‧ne‧nar

envenenar (first-person singular present enveneno, first-person singular preterite envenenei, past participle envenenado)

1. (transitive) to poison
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be poisoned; to take poison
3. (figuratively) to spoil; to destroy
4. (colloquial) to soup up (a car)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:envenenar.

• (to poison): intoxicar
• (to spoil): arruinar

Probably from en- +‎ veneno. Compare Latin venenāre, present active infinitive of venenō. Compare Italian avvelenare, Portuguese envenenar, Romanian învenina.

• (General) IPA^(key): /embeneˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧ve‧ne‧nar

envenenar (first-person singular present enveneno, first-person singular preterite envenené, past participle envenenado)

1. to poison

   Synonym: emponzoñar

2. to interpret maliciously
3. to make bitter

• “envenenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014