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poisoningverbpresent participle of poison to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirablepoisoning the minds of impressionable children with ethnic hatred blemishing, darkening, marring, spoiling, staining, tainting, tarnishing, touching, vitiating begriming, besmearing, besmirching, blackening, blurring, clouding, dirtying, discoloring, polluting, smearing, smirching, smudging, smutting, soiling, sullying, tarringabasing, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, lowering, shaming, sinkingbastardizing, corrupting, debauching, demoralizing, depraving, perverting, subvertingcoloring, distorting, twisting cleansing, purifyingdignifying, elevating, ennobling, enshrining, glorifying, hallowing, magnifying, uplifting to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirableexhaust fumes poisoning the air befouling, contaminating, defiling, fouling, polluting, tainting infectingbegriming, besmirching, blackening, dirtying, fouling up, griming, miring, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullyingcorrupting, rotting, spoilingadulterating, doctoringdiluting, watering down decontaminating, purifying clarifying, cleaning, cleansing, clearing, distilling, purgingfilteringdisinfecting, sanitizing, sterilizing to lower in character, dignity, or qualitythis party partisanship poisons the national debate we should be having about this urgent problem abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, debasing, debauching, degrading, demeaning, demoralizing, depraving, deteriorating, lessening, perverting, profaning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledgemalicious rumors had poisoned many church members against the new pastor biasing(or biassing), prejudicing, turning disposing, inclining, predisposinginfluencing, prepossessingconvincing, persuading, suggesting |