kill vs poison

kill and poison both are nouns.

kill and poison both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
kill	Yes	No	Yes	No
poison	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, poison is a hyponym of kill; that is, poison is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kill:

kill: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
poison: kill with poison

Other hyponyms of kill include annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, drown, massacre, mow down, slaughter, erase, wipe out, butcher, slaughter, lapidate, stone, commit suicide, dispatch, vaporize, zap, sacrifice, take off, tomahawk, saber, sabre, overlay, overlie, brain, put away, put to sleep, do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste, exterminate, kill off, asphyxiate, smother, suffocate, strangle, strangulate, throttle, behead, decapitate, decollate, impale, stake, dismember, martyr, shed blood, bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay, assassinate, execute, put to death, draw, draw and quarter, quarter, lynch, pip, shoot, electrocute, fry, euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill, gank.

kill (noun)	poison (noun)
the act of terminating a life	anything that harms or destroys
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile	any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal

kill (verb)	poison (verb)
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase	administer poison to
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in	add poison to
cause to cease operating	kill with poison
tire out completely	kill by its poison
end or extinguish by forceful means	spoil as if by poison
drink down entirely
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
cause the death of, without intention
deprive of life
hit with great force
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
be the source of great pain for
thwart the passage of
be fatal

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