"poison the well" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poisons the well",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoning the well",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoned the well",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoned the well",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "poison the well (third-person singular simple present poisons the well, present participle poisoning the well, simple past and past participle poisoned the well)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To preemptively raise ad hominem arguments in order to discredit someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-poison_the_well-en-verb-hfDPebGT",
      "links": [
        [
          "preemptively",
          "preemptively"
        ],
        [
          "ad hominem",
          "ad hominem"
        ],
        [
          "discredit",
          "discredit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To preemptively raise ad hominem arguments in order to discredit someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kòumàozi",
          "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
          "word": "扣帽子"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
          "word": "myrkyttää kaivo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
          "word": "empoisonner le puits"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "argumentować niemerytorycznie"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, the, well."
      ],
      "id": "en-poison_the_well-en-verb-N3gbIZOX",
      "links": [
        [
          "poison",
          "poison#English"
        ],
        [
          "the",
          "the#English"
        ],
        [
          "well",
          "well#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poison the well"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poisons the well",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoning the well",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoned the well",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poisoned the well",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "poison the well (third-person singular simple present poisons the well, present participle poisoning the well, simple past and past participle poisoned the well)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To preemptively raise ad hominem arguments in order to discredit someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "preemptively",
          "preemptively"
        ],
        [
          "ad hominem",
          "ad hominem"
        ],
        [
          "discredit",
          "discredit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To preemptively raise ad hominem arguments in order to discredit someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, the, well."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poison",
          "poison#English"
        ],
        [
          "the",
          "the#English"
        ],
        [
          "well",
          "well#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kòumàozi",
      "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
      "word": "扣帽子"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
      "word": "myrkyttää kaivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
      "word": "empoisonner le puits"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "raise ad hominem arguments",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "argumentować niemerytorycznie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "poison the well"
}