Meaning

1 senses

  1. To treat or poison with cyanide.

Examples

13 sentences

  1. Layla bought cyanide on the Internet.

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  2. Sami has been poisoned with cyanide.

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  3. Martino was dead from cyanide poisoning.

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  4. Fyodor put cyanide in the hot chocolate.

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  5. Tobacco smoke contains hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas.

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Origin

From cyan- + -ide.

From cyan- + -ide.

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Forms

cyanides, cyaniding, cyanided, cyanided
Base formcyanide · to cyanide
3rd person singularcyanides
Present participlecyaniding
Past simplecyanided
Past participlecyanided

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycyanide
he, she, itcyanides

Past simpleLesson

all personscyanided

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cyanided
he, she, ithas cyanided

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cyanide

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhydrocyanic acid

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cuttingcuttlefishcyancybercyberattack

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