cyanide

/ˈsaɪənaɪd/

noun 3verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

cellular, dead, deadly, gold, hot, online, poisonous, produced

VERB + CYANIDE

bought, coated, contain, contains, died, dissolving, found, laced

CYANIDE + NOUN

apple, dynamite, internet

PREP.

down, from, in, on, with

Definitions

noun

Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.

Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.

The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide

Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […] The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889.

Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.

verb

To treat or poison with cyanide.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano rad

nitrile
nitril

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide

Wiktionary

Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation)

Wiktionary

The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.

Wiktionary

That's cyanide.

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All the fish in this lake died from cyanide poisoning.

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Layla ordered cyanide online.

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