What's the difference between acerbate and envenom?
Acerbate
Definition:
(v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early on he wrote in a wide variety of outlets (including twice in the Guardian ), but his acerbic takes on the national security state have earned him a regular column at the paleocon mothership, the American Conservative.
(2) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
(3) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
(4) In contrast, he returned to the mainstream in Robert Redford's factually based Quiz Show (1994), as the acerbic father to a fraudulent game-show contestant.
(5) Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Birmingham Yardley, has already posted an acerbic tweet.
(6) He was a man of contradictions: he was a romantic, but also an acerbic and difficult character.
(7) Other work in the show recalls Soviet-era propaganda posters, and twists political slogans to acerbic effect.
(8) The acerbic correspondence of Jones and Briffa with Michael Mann of Penn State University , the chief creator of the hockey stick graph, is a central feature of the emails.
(9) The result is a show whose rapid-paced, ultra-acerbic dialogue is as funny as anything on television at the moment.
(10) And we will address it.” The Vermont senator urged attendees to “join me in this campaign to build a future that works for all of us, and not just the few on top.” Although the acerbic left-winger is a political veteran, this will be his first Democratic primary.
(11) Mark Gardner, Community Security Trust On Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, the Sunday Times ran a cartoon by its famously acerbic cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe, that depicts Binyamin Netanyahu using blood to cement a wall that he is building, that has parts of bodies trapped within it.
(12) His acerbic former adviser Dominic Cummings , long loathed by David Cameron (the feeling is mutual), is the campaign director.
(13) His acerbic wit and combative manner can ruffle feathers.
(14) The acerbic comments from the official Xinhua news agency come after Clinton, while on an official visit to Africa , appeared to question China's motives in the region.
(15) It received a warm reception in the House of Lords, though one peer commented acerbically that Adonis’s predecessor, Ruth Kelly, had just two years earlier called such a project “opportunistic, economically illiterate and hugely damaging to Britain’s national interests”.
(16) Angela Eagle The chair of the Labour national policy forum and shadow leader of the house has an acerbic wit capable of putting most Tory ministers on the back foot.
(17) Erdoğan’s acerbic response on Monday suggested the EU’s concerns were justified.
(18) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
(19) "As the wonderfully acerbic Anne Robinson said, 'The viewers don't want to watch ugly.'"
(20) The hashtag #Clapper on Twitter is filled with acerbic tweets mocking the "least untruthful" line.
Envenom
Definition:
(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
(2) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(3) Surprisingly, whole-rat envenomation, using very large doses of venom, produced little dye leakage even though obvious symptoms of neurotoxic action were observed.
(4) Protamine sulphate in vitro antagonized anticoagulant properties but did not protect mice from toxic envenomation; because venom was also neurotoxic and showed a curare like effect at the neuromuscular junction.
(5) The four envenomated patients developed a typical consumption coagulopathy.
(6) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
(7) An analogy between pit viper envenomization and Adriamycin infiltration is discussed.
(8) The therapy of this dual disorder involves combining treatment of the obvious shock from the allergic reaction with a standard approach to Crotalidae envenomation.
(9) Thirty-four patients envenomed by Bothrops jararaca in Brazil were studied.
(10) In case of viperid envenomation such a postponement of death time was not noticed.
(11) The literature on the neurological effects of tick-envenomation is reviewed.
(12) Unlike the brown recluse spider, wolf spider envenomation seldom causes cutaneous necrosis or systemic symptoms.
(13) The observation of high blood pressure and elevated levels of renin suggests that in addition to increased circulating catecholamines following scorpion envenomation, sympathetically induced renin release may play an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension.
(14) West Virginia, it would seem, is an unlikely place for physicians to encounter patients with poisonous marine envenomations.
(15) When humans encounter marine creatures a variety of maladies may occur, ranging from dermatitis to life-threatening trauma, allergy, envenomations, or intoxications.
(16) A conspicuous hemorrhage developed in injected muscle rapidly after envenomation, probably due to a drastic alteration in capillaries and larger blood vessels.
(17) While antivenom remains the mainstay in the treatment of snake-bite envenomation, the possible role of anticholinesterase therapy for death-adder bites in Papua New Guinea is discussed.
(18) In all controls the typical envenomation picture produced by scorpion venom was developed, and death was registered in 19% of the animals.
(19) Complicated and mystifying as the snake envenomation process may appear, the toxic principles of snake venoms are biochemical entities that could be isolated, purified and characterized.
(20) Although calcium gluconate usually has been considered the first-line treatment of severe envenomations by black widow spiders, we found it ineffective for pain relief compared with a combination of IV opioids and benzodiazepines.