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Etymology

From Middle English venum, venym, etc., from Anglo-Norman venum, venim, venime, etc., from Old French venim, venin, etc., from Vulgar Latin *venīmen (“venom”), from Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”), from Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”); see also Sanskrit वनति (vanati, “gain, wish, lust”) and Latin Venus (“Roman goddess of love”). Doublet of venin and venene.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛnəm/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnəm

Nomen

venom (countable and uncountable, plural venoms)

  1. An animal toxin intended for offensive use, a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc. to protect an animal or to kill its prey.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      […] There may be in the cup
      A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart,
      And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
      Is not infected...
    • 1634, John Milton, Arcades in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, Song, p. 54,[1]
      ...And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew,
      And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew,
      Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites,
      Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites...
    • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
      I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
    • 1968 August, Truman Capote, interview, Mademoiselle:
      The serious artist […] [is] obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
    • 2022, Derek Muller, "How Horses Save Humans from Snake Bites", Veritasium, 00:03:20 ff.:
      Venom evolved from saliva and it's used primarily for catching and digesting prey.
  2. (figuratively) Feeling oder speech marked by spite oder malice; vitriol.
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
      The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
      Have lost their quality, and that this day
      Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
    • 1790, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, London: C. Dilly, Volume 5, No. 130, p. 48,[2]
      […] as I was feasting my jaundiced eye one morning with a certain newspaper, which I was in the habit of employing as the vehicle of my venom, I was startled at discovering myself conspicuously pointed out in an angry column as a cowardly defamer […]
    • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 33,[3]
      “My daughter […] has no occasion to dispute the identity of your person; the venom of your present language is sufficient to remind her that she speaks with the mortal enemy of her father.”
    • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Open Road, 2012, Book Three,
      History is a study which has none of the venom of reality in it.
    • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:
      The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
    • 2007, Roger Ebert, Your Movie Sucks, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, Introduction,[4]
      Some of these reviews were written in joyous zeal. Others with glee. Some in sorrow, some in anger, and a precious few with venom, of which I have a closely guarded supply.

Synonyms

  • (poison carried by an animal): venene; venin (now usually venom of certain snakes); atter (archaic, dialectal); zootoxin

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

venom (third-person singular simple present venoms, present participle venoming, simple past and past participle venomed)

  1. (obsolete) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
    • 1566, Thomas Blundeville (translator and editor), The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, Chapter 36,[5]
      […] washe all the filth away with warme water, and annoynte the place with Hony and Fytch flower myngled together. But beware you touche none of the kirnelles with your bare finger, for feare of venoming the place, which is very apt for a Fistula to breede in.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
      Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mothers,
      And when we have our armours buckled on,
      The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords,
      Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.
    • 1669, John Bunyan, The Holy Citie, or, The New-Jerusalem, London: Francis Smith, Commentary, Chapter 21, Verse 25, pp. 229-230,[6]
      The Dragon is a venemous beast, and poisoneth all where he lieth; he beats the Earth bare, and venoms it, that it will bear no grass […]
    • 1717, William Stonestreet (translator), “The Story of Ants chang’d to Men” in Samuel Garth (editor), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 7, p. 239,[7]
      Our Fountains too a dire Infection yield,
      For Crowds of Vipers creep along the Field,
      And with polluted Gore, and baneful Steams,
      Taint all the Lakes, and venom all the Streams.

Derived terms

Adjective

venom (not comparable)

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

Anagrams

Middle English

Nomen

venom

  1. Alternative form of venym

Volapük

Nomen

venom

  1. poison, venom

See also

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