# potion

Pronunciation: say "POH-shuhn" US /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/, UK /pəʊ.ʃən/

## Noun

1. A small portion or dose of liquid intended as medicine, poison, or a magical drink.
   - Simple: A small drink of liquid meant to heal, poison, or do magic.
   - _The healer prepared a bitter potion to bring down the child's fever._
   - _Old legends describe potions that could grant invisibility or eternal youth._

## Verb

2. To drug someone, especially by giving them a doctored or poisoned drink. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To secretly give someone a drink that drugs them.

## Origin

This word comes from Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō ("a drinking"), from pōtāre ("to drink"). It is a doublet of poison.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/potion (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).