Venom

venom
    n 1: toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and
         poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
    2: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: {malice},
       {maliciousness}, {spite}, {spitefulness}, {venom}]
    

Venom \Ven"om\, n. [OE. venim, OF. venim, venin, F. venin, L.
   venenum. Cf. {Venenate}.]
   1. Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly,
      the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as
      serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of
      health, and communicate by biting or stinging.
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            Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. --Milton.
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   2. Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. --Chaucer. "The
      venom of such looks." --Shak.
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   Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See {Poison}.
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Venom \Ven"om\, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare.
   See {Venom}, n.]
   To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed
   vengeance." --Shak.
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138 Moby Thesaurus words for "venom":
      abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity,
      animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity,
      bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling,
      bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb,
      carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant,
      chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability,
      contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil,
      damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation,
      destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant,
      evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant,
      fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings,
      harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt,
      ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency,
      infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury,
      insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice,
      maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide,
      mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness,
      organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage,
      pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor,
      rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide,
      roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness,
      spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic,
      systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant,
      toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta,
      venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence,
      virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong