Meaning
to poison, intoxicate
- to poison someone or cause toxic sickness in an organism
- to corrupt, contaminate, or ruin figuratively
In a sentence
Quel pesce avariato potrebbe intossicare chiunque.
That spoiled fish could poison anyone.
I fumi tossici della fabbrica intossicano l'aria della città.
The factory's toxic fumes are poisoning the city's air.
Si sono intossicati dopo aver mangiato funghi sconosciuti.
They suffered food poisoning after eating unknown mushrooms.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| intossicare | infinitive |
| intossico | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| intossichi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| intossica | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| intossichiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| intossicate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| intossicavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| intossicavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| intossicava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| intossicavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| intossicavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| intossicai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| intossicasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| intossicò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| intossicammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| intossicaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| intossicherò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| intossicherai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| intossicherà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| intossicheremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| intossicherete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicheranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| intossichi | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| intossichi | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| intossichi | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| intossichiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| intossichiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| intossichino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| intossicassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| intossicassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| intossicasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| intossicassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| intossicaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| intossicherei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| intossicheresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| intossicherebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| intossicheremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| intossichereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicherebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| intossica | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| intossichiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| intossicate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| intossicando | gerund |
| intossicato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Takes a hard /k/ sound before 'e' and 'i', spelling 'intossichi', 'intossichiamo'.
- Often used reflexively as 'intossicarsi' (to get food poisoning, to overdose).