cyanide poisoning

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   poisoning due to ingesting or inhaling cyanide; common in smoke from fires and in industrial chemicals

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Questions about cyanide poisoning

What does cyanide poisoning mean?

cyanide poisoning means "poisoning due to ingesting or inhaling cyanide; common in smoke from fires and in industrial chemicals".

Is cyanide poisoning a common word?

cyanide poisoning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.