{
    "term": "poison",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a substance that causes death or harm if it gets into the body",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How did he die? Was it poison?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dog was killed by rat poison *(= poison intended to kill )."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to hunt with poison arrows"
                },
                {
                    "text": "bombs containing poison gas"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had laced his drink with poison."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["potent", "powerful", "strong"],
                "… of poison": ["trace"],
                "verb + poison": ["administer", "give somebody", "inject"],
                "poison + noun": ["gas", "pill", "arrow"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an idea, a feeling, etc. that is extremely harmful",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the poison of racial hatred"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These words were pure poison to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "groups that are spreading the poison of sectarianism"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that different people like different things; what one person likes very much, another person does not like at all",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to ask somebody what alcoholic drink they would like",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal, humorous)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔɪzn/",
                "audio": "po/poison/poison__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔɪzn/",
                "audio": "po/poison/poison__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draught): from Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio(n-) ‘potion’, related to potare ‘to drink’."
}