"Poison" is to "poisoned" as "venom" is to what?
As the title says, poison is to poisoned as venom is to what?
I tried looking up venomed but it means something different.
Is there such a word?
Solution 1:
Actually, venomed exists and you can find it here. In literature I have seen the expression venomed arrows, meaning covered with venom, but according to this source it also means poisoned as the past participle of the verb venom.
Solution 2:
In biology, the term envenomated (past participle of envenomate) is used for this; Google Books turns up uses like:
- Distribution of Venoms in Envenomated Animals
- Called strike-induced chemosensory searching (SICS), this phenomenon facilitates location of an envenomated rodent which might wander several meters from the snake after the strike.
- The first experience is receiving a dry bite and not being envenomated at all.
That said, I think I'd only use envenomated if the venom is actually delivered by a venomous animal (especially a snake, via bite). If, say, someone were to extract snake venom and use it to poison someone's drink, I think the recipient would be poisoned, not "envenomated".
Solution 3:
To envenom someone or something is to make it poisonous or to add poison to it. So, if using poison in the figurative sense of fouling, embittering, spoiling, etc. it would be acceptable, as in envenoming a relationship. It would not be suitable when using poison in the sense of murdering someone by poison, or adulterating something lethally.