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Detoxify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove foreign and harmful substances from something. transitive

    "As a result of this, in some way or other, unknown to us, a diminished power of oxidation results and the organism loses the power to detoxify substances absorbed from the intestine which have been present there in excess; […]"

  2. 2
    treat for alcohol or drug dependence wordnet
  3. 3
    To make something that is harmful more benign. transitive

    "We can either break as a nation or find a way to detoxify our politics."

  4. 4
    remove poison from wordnet

Etymology

Attested since 1905 (twelve years earlier than toxify), from de- + tox- + -ify. (Detoxicate is attested one year earlier, since 1904.)

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