Food Contamination Vocabulary

adjective describing something as being infested with maggots

• The rotten meat was infested with maggoty larvae.
• Eww, that garbage can is full of maggoty stuff.
• I can't believe you ate that maggoty sandwich!
• His mind was a maggoty mess of negative thoughts.

verb to administer poison to (a person or animal) in order to kill or harm them

adjective containing or being a poisonous substance that is capable of causing injury or death

• The victim was found to have been poisoned with a lethal dose of cyanide.
• I heard that someone got poisoned after eating at that sketchy restaurant.
• They say she got poisoned by her ex-boyfriend's lies.
• The toxic environment at work slowly poisoned her enthusiasm for the job.