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"poisoned" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been affected by or exposed to poison. For example, "The lake was poisoned by toxic chemicals."
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We condemn the current distribution of economic resources whereby only a tiny minority escape poverty and insecurity, and future generations are condemned to a poisoned legacy thanks to the environmental crimes of the rich and powerful.
A totemic symbol for neolithic people who buried their dead with white-tailed eagles on Orkney, it was all too easily trapped, poisoned and shot to extinction, the last bird killed in 1918.
The failure to honour this commitment had poisoned Russia's post-cold war relations with the west.
All that is left is a story to tell our children: a story of thousands of Syrian people who confronted Assad's tyranny and dictatorship with tremendous sacrifices, and yet the world turned its back on them; a revolution that was poisoned by intruders, traitors and foreign money.
A graphic panel outlining key facts about tar sands in Canada, published alongside a related report (The oil made some people rich – but it poisoned the river and spoilt the land, 29 May, page 22), erred in saying they were located "in the state of Alberta".
So it's been one spring horror after another here, and then the dog poisoned itself by licking frog corpses in the garden.
The bird was found in June about 50 miles from the grouse moor near Skibo castle where three poisoned golden eagles had been discovered only a few weeks earlier.
"The [fans] were poisoned, sold a story that was not true," he said.
In the past some local people boiled up whole gibbons to turn them into a sort of 'gibbon jelly' for use as a traditional medicine, while others told Turvey that if you made chopsticks out of gibbon arm bones, they can tell you if your food is poisoned or not.
The six-year-old who described having Yahoos living inside him was one of these rare cases; he heard them constantly speak to him, feared being poisoned, believed he could cast spells, smelt "bugs" in the tap water and saw nonexistent trails in the snow.
Central to current tensions in Charlie Hebdo is the money many staff describe as the "poisoned millions".
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