Usually means: Toxic chemical compound, inhibits respiration.
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  1. cyanide: Merriam-Webster
  2. cyanide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cyanide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cyanide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cyanide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cyanide, cyanide: Wordnik
  7. cyanide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cyanide: Wiktionary
  9. cyanide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cyanide (cyanid): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cyanide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cyanide: Dictionary.com
  13. cyanide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cyanide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cyanide (Studio), Cyanide (company), Cyanide (disambiguation), Cyanide (song), Cyanide (video game player), Cyanide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cyanide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cyanide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cyanide: Rhymezone
  19. Cyanide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cyanide: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cyanide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cyanide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cyanide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cyanide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cyanide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cyanide: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. cyanide: Medical dictionary
  6. Cyanide: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cyanide: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cyanide: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cyanided as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry) Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.
verb:  (transitive) To treat or poison with cyanide.

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