verb
Meanings
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verb
to treat, impregnate, or contaminate with arsenic or an arsenic compound
The old pesticide arsenicated the soil around the greenhouse.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
1
verb
· to treat, impregnate, or...
treat with arsenicarsenicize
Opposites
decontaminate
Word family
Etymology
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.