arsenicate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to treat, impregnate, or contaminate with arsenic or an arsenic compound

   The old pesticide arsenicated the soil around the greenhouse.

Formed from arsenic and the verb-forming suffix -ate. Arsenic came through French and Latin from Greek arsenikon, itself borrowed from a Middle Iranian word for the yellow mineral orpiment.

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