Noxious and Poison

Noxious

Noxious adjective - Bad for the well-being of the body.

Poison and noxious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poison" instead an adjective "Noxious".

Nearby Words: noxiousness, noxiously

Poison

Poison adjective - Containing or contaminated with a substance capable of injuring or killing a living thing.
Usage example: the witch gave Snow White a poison apple

Noxious and poison are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Noxious" instead an adjective "Poison".

Both words in one sentence

  • Poison Is Corrosive During his song in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the sentient gas cloud Hexxus spits what he refers to as "poison sludge" onto a nearby pipe, causing it to hiss and release noxious fumes.
  • Walking Wasteland Never mind biting; it could kill creatures with super-lethal poison just by looking them in the eyes, or when they inhale the noxious fumes it emanates.
  • Deadly Gas Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 have stagnate pool of watery fallout that are signaled by their noxious fumes; while the fumes don't do anything but the radiation will poison you.
    Source: Deadly Gas
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