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food poisoning

food poi·son·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [food poi-zuh-ning]
    • /fud ˈpɔɪ zə nɪŋ/
    • /fuːd ˈpɔɪ.zən.ɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [food poi-zuh-ning]
    • /fud ˈpɔɪ zə nɪŋ/

Definitions of food poisoning words

  • noun food poisoning an acute gastrointestinal condition characterized by such symptoms as headache, fever, chills, abdominal and muscular pain, nausea, diarrhea, and prostration, caused by foods that are naturally toxic, as poisonous mushrooms, by vegetable foods that are chemically contaminated, as by insecticides, or by bacteria or their toxins, especially of the genus Salmonella. 1
  • noun food poisoning illness from contaminated food 1
  • uncountable noun food poisoning If you get food poisoning, you become ill because you have eaten food that has gone bad. 0
  • noun food poisoning an acute illness typically characterized by gastrointestinal inflammation, vomiting, and diarrhoea, caused by food that is either naturally poisonous or contaminated by pathogenic bacteria (esp Salmonella) 0
  • noun food poisoning the sickness resulting from eating food contaminated either by bacterial toxins or by certain bacteria, esp. salmonella, often causing vomiting, diarrhea, and prostration 0
  • noun food poisoning poisoning resulting from naturally poisonous foods, as certain mushrooms, or from chemical contaminants in food 0
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Origin of food poisoning

First appearance:

before 1885
One of the 21% newest English words
First recorded in 1885-90

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Parts of speech for Food poisoning

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Food poisoning

food poisoning popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 72% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

food poisoning usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for food poisoning

noun food poisoning

  • botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
  • salmonella — any of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa, that may enter the digestive tract of humans and other mammals in contaminated food and cause abdominal pains and violent diarrhea.
  • ptomaine poisoning — (erroneously) food poisoning thought to be caused by ptomaine.
All 3 Synonyms of food poisoning

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