"poisoner" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-poisoner.wav Forms: poisoners [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English poysener; equivalent to poison + -er. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|poysener}} Middle English poysener, {{suffix|en|poison|er|id2=agent noun}} poison + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} poisoner (plural poisoners)
  1. A person who poisons something or someone. Categories (topical): People Derived forms: lead poisoner Translations (person who poisons something or someone): атруча́льнік (atručálʹnik) (Belarusian), атруча́льніца (atručálʹnica) [feminine] (Belarusian), зяле́йнік (zjaljéjnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), зяле́йніца (zjaljéjnica) [feminine] (Belarusian), отрови́тел (otrovítel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), отрови́телка (otrovítelka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), gifmenger [masculine] (Dutch), myrkyttäjä (Finnish), empoisonneur [masculine] (French), empoisonneuse [feminine] (French), Giftmischer [masculine] (German), Giftmischerin [feminine] (German), Giftmörder [masculine] (German), Giftmörderin [feminine] (German), peracun (Indonesian), nimhitheoir [masculine] (Irish), venēnārius [masculine] (Latin), venēficus [masculine] (Latin), venēfica [feminine] (Latin), empouaîsonneux [masculine] (Norman), truciciel [masculine] (Polish), trucicielka [feminine] (Polish), отрави́тель (otravítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), отрави́тельница (otravítelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), отру́йник (otrújnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), отру́йниця (otrújnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), отру́ювач (otrújuvač) [masculine] (Ukrainian), отру́ювачка (otrújuvačka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), отру́тник (otrútnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), отру́тниця (otrútnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.