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To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
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Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
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Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
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Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
v. t.
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
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To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
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Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
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A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
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Free from weeds or noxious matter.
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Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
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Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
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A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
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Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
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To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
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Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
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Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.
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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
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To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
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A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
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One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
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