food poisoning
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2.7
- noun
- /fuːd ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/
:
intoxicación alimentaria
- If the food is not properly cooked or stored, it can lead to food poisoning, resulting in symptoms like nausea and diarrhea.
- cause food poisoning
- cases of food poisoning
- outbreaks of food poisoning
Third day, your director gets food poisoning and has to stay home.
- Third day, your director gets food poisoning and has to stay home.
- I gave Alan Carr, Adele and Adele's dog food poisoning.
- Well, also, just to preface this entire thing, I thought that I had food poisoning like two or three days prior to that.
- Obviously you saw him disappear last episode with food poisoning.
- If you've ever had food poisoning, you know exactly what he is talking about.
- Most of us have experienced food poisoning.
- On this episode I talk about box of the month club ideas, Facebook video versus YouTube, and how I got food poisoning this morning.
- But when we were starting to write that chapter alone in the book, I that day, I, I got food poisoning.
- Nothing humbles you more than food poisoning, nothing cold and the common cold.
- They had terrible food poisoning, they went to AR, they got scan.
Examples
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After my second bout of food poisoning, I refused to eat anything she cooked.
Blog text (14) -
I like sushi but don't eat it because food poisoning totally freaks me out.
Blog text (6) -
I had the worst food poisoning.
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- I think I have food poisoning.
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I think I got food poisoning.
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My mother said, "If anybody asks you, just say he got food poisoning."
Fiction book (1990) -
What may have happened if a small child had become extremely ill or even died because of food poisoning?
Academic text (2008) -
Over the past ten years, more and more food poisoning cases caused by pesticide contamination have occurred in Taiwan.
Academic text (1994) -
It's many harrowing minutes before Antonia gets examined, and the doctor determines she has food poisoning.
Fiction book (1999) -
She's got food poisoning.
Synonyms
9
2.5
An illness that makes your stomach and intestines sore and swollen, causing vomiting and diarrhea
5
5.8
An illness that makes the stomach and intestines sore and causes vomiting and diarrhea
1
9.9
An old word for an illness from eating spoiled food
1
3.7
An illness that affects the stomach and intestines, often from bad food or water
How Severe
43
2.7
2
2.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably composed from 'food' (what is eaten) + 'poisoning' (illness caused by a toxic substance), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer an illness caused by contaminated food. This noun–noun combination follows common compositional patterns in English and many other languages, making it readily understandable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Food poisoning comes from the clear image of bad food acting like poison inside the body and making people sick. So, it means 'an illness you get from eating contaminated food'.