Detoxify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Detoxify is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
Meaning
(transitive) To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To make something that is harmful more benign.
Example Sentences
We can either break as a nation or find a way to detoxify our politics.
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; […]
The severe disciplinary action taken by his daughter—who since taking over the FN in 2011 has led a drive to “detoxify” the party and move it away from the racist, jackbooted, antisemitic imagery of the past—was supposed to silence her father.
Word Forms
- detoxifies
- detoxifying
- detoxified
- de-toxify
Synonyms for detoxify
Depending on context, synonyms include detoxicate.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include detoxicate, de-toxify, detoxificate, detox, disintoxicate, cleanse.
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