What does venom mean?

Definitions for venom
ˈvɛn əmven·om

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. venomnoun

    toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)

  2. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venomnoun

    feeling a need to see others suffer

Wiktionary

  1. venomnoun

    a poison wielded by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter

  2. venomnoun

    feeling or speech marked by spite or malice

  3. venomverb

    To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

    Venomed vengeance. uE00026128uE001 Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. VENOM

    VENOM (short for Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation) is a computer security flaw that was discovered in 2015 by Jason Geffner, then a security researcher at CrowdStrike. The flaw was introduced in 2004 and affected versions of QEMU, Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox from that date until it was patched following disclosure.The existence of the vulnerability was due to a flaw in QEMU's virtual floppy disk controller.VENOM is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database as CVE-2015-3456.

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  1. venom

    Venom is a toxic substance secreted by certain animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions, used primarily to immobilize or kill prey or as a defense mechanism. It is typically injected into the bloodstream through a bite or sting, and its effects can range from mild irritation to death, depending on the potency and quantity of the venom as well as the size and health of the victim.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Venomnoun

    matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging

  2. Venomnoun

    spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer

  3. Venomnoun

    to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison

  4. Etymology: [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare. See Venom, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Venom

    Venom is the general term referring to any variety of toxins used by certain types of animals that inject it into their victims by the means of a bite, sting or other sharp body feature. Unlike poison, which is ingested or inhaled, venom is usually delivered directly into the lymphatic system, where it acts faster. The potency of different venoms varies; lethal venoms are often characterised by the median lethal dose, expressed in terms of mass fraction, that will kill 50% of victims of a specified type.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Venom

    ven′um, n. any drink, juice, or liquid injurious or fatal to life: poison: spite: malice.—adj. (Shak.) venomous, poisonous.—v.t. to infect with poison.—n. Ven′om-duct, in a poisonous animal, the duct conveying venom from the sac or gland where it is secreted to the tooth or venom-fang whence it is discharged.—adjs. Ven′om-mouthed, having a venomous mouth: (Shak.) slanderous; Ven′omous, poisonous: spiteful: mischievous.—adv. Ven′omously.—n. Ven′omousness. [Fr. venin (It. veneno)—L. venenum.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. venom

    1. The juice of hate. 2. The sap of reformers, moralists and socialists. 3. The deadly smile of the optimist when he looks at the under dog. 4. The physical sweat of a defeated candidate and the emotional sweat of old maids. (Venom, like everything else, is subject to the law of evolution and variation. Between the venom of Cain and the venom of Tolstoy, several million instances could be quoted to prove the universality and beneficence of this breedy instinct.)

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of venom in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of venom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of venom in a Sentence

  1. Dan Maloney:

    They don't want to encounter you if they don't have to -- they would rather save their venom for something they’re going to eat rather than having to fight someone off, give them as much space as you can.

  2. Malik Zulu Shabazz:

    The pro-Farrakhan activists used the day on Capitol Hill to denounce a resolution Rep. Todd Rokita, an Indiana Republican, proposed that condemns Farrakhan. We cannot allow a politically hypocritical political situation to exist whereas an openly racist president, Donald Trump is given a free pass and to spew racist venom and racist policies by a confederate based GOP.

  3. Andrea Pergola:

    Before they could get the IV in he began to shake as someone who was cold would do, partially from fright and partially from the venom moving through his body. logan did not pick it up; it was on a branch and he brushed his arm against it.

  4. Julie Kaae Klint:

    A conservative estimate indicates that there are nine million spider-venom peptides, and only 0.01 percent of this vast pharmacological landscape has been explored so far.

  5. Scott C. Holstad:

    That's why angels prefer to come here on faint ancient nights when the moon is at half-strength and the cats howl their hunger. The venom plaguing us seems miles away.

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