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Word entry · 7 letters

cyanide

Best crossword clue

"Deadly poison"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪənaɪd/Part of speech nounSorted acdeinyStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2Y3A4N5I6D7E

Definitions

  1. 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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