Home › Words › E › empoisonmentempoisonmentempoisonment means poisoning.EtymologyFrom empoison + -ment. Compare French empoisonnement.nounpoisoninge.g.“c. 1616, Francis Bacon, letter to the King questions touching the empoisonment”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.empoison 82% match — To poison. vs empoisonment →poisoning 67% match — The administration of a poison. vs empoisonment →empoisoner 65% match — A poisoner. vs empoisonment →impoisoner 64% match — A poisoner. vs empoisonment →toxicosis 64% match — illness due to poisoning vs empoisonment →arsenism 63% match — arsenic poisoning vs empoisonment →poisoned 63% match — Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison. vs empoisonment →poisonsome 63% match — poisonous vs empoisonment →