Both Uses of

toxic
in
The Lovely Bones

Then, inside the earth and so far away from the man or woman who had laced a garden with toxic bait, an entire family of rabbits would curl into themselves and die.†
Chpt 2 *

toxic = poisonous or harmful

I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray container or two.†
Chpt 20