毒死

dúsǐ

verb #8,210

Meanings

1 to poison to death; to kill by poisoning

Characters

poison; to poison

Poison to death — the act of killing through poisoning.

Examples

那些老鼠被毒死了。

Nàxiē lǎoshǔ bèi dúsǐ le.

Those rats were poisoned to death.

凶手用砒霜毒死了受害者。

Xiōngshǒu yòng pīshuāng dúsǐ le shòuhàizhě.

The murderer killed the victim with arsenic.

这种蘑菇能毒死人。

Zhèzhǒng mógū néng dúsǐ rén.

This kind of mushroom can poison a person to death.

Tips

grammar

毒死 is a resultative verb compound: 毒 (to poison) + 死 (to die). The 死 indicates the result of the poisoning. Compare: 打死 (beat to death), 淹死 (drown to death), 烧死 (burn to death).

Stroke Order

毒 dú

死 sǐ