Definitions
an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
Word origin
From cyan- + -ide.
Used in a sentence
“The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide”
“The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.”
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01“Deadly poison”7 letters
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