Toxify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make or render toxic. transitive

    "The experiments made with this objective showed that agar-gel could toxify a rat serum which had been heated at 45 an 50 C. for half an hour."

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"The experiments made with this objective showed that agar-gel could toxify a rat serum which had been heated at 45 an 50 C. for half an hour."

Etymology

Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify.

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