venom
[noun]
Synonyms:
- malice, acrimony, bitterness, hate, rancour, spite, spleen, virulence
- poison, bane, toxin

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Contrasted words: antidote, remedy
Related Words: ill will, malignity, rancor, venomousness, virulence, vitriol

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ven‧om /ˈvenəm/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: venim, from Latin venenum 'use of magic power, drug, poison']

1. great anger or hatred Synonym : malice:
There was real venom in her voice.
a look of pure venom

2. a liquid poison that some snakes, insects etc produce when they bite or sting you:
The viper paralyses its prey by injecting it with venom.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

venom
noun
I. poisonous fluid from a snake, etc.
ADJ. deadly | snake, spider, etc.
VENOM + VERB inject, spit The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.
VENOM + NOUN gland

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

venom
II. extreme anger or hatred
ADJ. pure, real, undisguised a look of pure venom
VERB + VENOM spit She surveyed him coldly with eyes that spat venom.
PREP. with ~ She said it quickly and with venom.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲