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English
Etymology
By surface analysis, poison + -ing.
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.
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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)
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Verb
poisoning
- present participle and gerund of poison
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