hemlock
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9.4
- noun
- /ˈhɛm.lɑk/
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cicuta
- Socrates was condemned to drink the hemlock.
- poison hemlock
He drank the hemlock himself, as a matter of fact, his jailer told him, Hey, hey, don't be talking so much.
- He drank the hemlock himself, as a matter of fact, his jailer told him, Hey, hey, don't be talking so much.
- He's sentenced to death and he drinks hemlock as as part of the execution quite willingly and happily, which is a little bit of a paradox.
- Well, Churchill liked that idea, but he says he realizes that the parents of the day wood forest him to drink hemlock.
- He doesn't rail against him, and he sits and accepts the loving companionship with his friends as he drinks the head, the hemlock.
Examples
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Now poison hemlock even in small amounts can be fatal.
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He's about to drink hemlock and lose his life.
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Then put hemlock in their food.
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I'll make you a cup of hemlock.
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Actually, poison hemlock is not uncommon in our area of the woods.
Blog text (32) -
Socrates, in his cell, staring at his cup of hemlock, was freer than you or I shall ever be.
Fiction book (1995) -
To call art a frill in education, to consider it frivolous, is to offer Socrates another glass of hemlock.
Academic text (1996) -
Socrates has been condemned to death by the Athenians, and it ends with his drinking the hemlock, not distressed but rather sort of joyful.
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Occupying the near center of this area, reclining on the white marble steps, is the figure of Socrates with his chalicelike cup of hemlock.
Academic text (1995) -
Socrates chose to drink hemlock as a means of accepting his death sentence.
Synonyms
A sticky gum from the poisonous hemlock plant
Idioms
Compounds
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7.4
A large evergreen tree with short needles found in eastern North America, often used to make paper
A large evergreen tree from eastern North America with short needles, used for wood and paper
A medium-sized evergreen tree with spreading branches and cones with wide scales in the southeastern United States
A tall evergreen tree from northwestern North America with short needles and egg-shaped cones
- Specialized
A large evergreen tree with very hard wood that grows on high mountain slopes
A European plant with leaves like parsley that grows near streams and is deadly in all parts
- Specialized
A tall evergreen tree from western North America that provides wood for building
A tall plant with purple spots on its stems and very poisonous roots that grow in wet places
A tall poisonous plant with purple-spotted stems that grows near water and whose roots are deadly if eaten
A tall very poisonous plant that grows near streams and has leaves and roots that can kill animals or people
- Specialized
A tall evergreen tree from western North America used for its wood
- Specialized
A tall evergreen tree from western North America that provides soft wood for building
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Hemlock also means the poison made from that plant; because people long ago used the plant as an execution drug, the same name came to mean the 'poison' itself.