venom🔊

An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey. +

(figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.

(obsolete) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

(obsolete) Poisonous, poisoned; (figuratively) pernicious.