Disintoxicate

Quick meaning: Disintoxicate is a verb meaning (medicine) To neutralize the intoxicating effects of.

Meaning

(medicine) To neutralize the intoxicating effects of.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) To remove or counter an intoxicating substance from
2. To disenchant; to restore a realistic perspective.

Example Sentences

I want to disintoxicate myself from TV.

Our greatest need vis-a-vis China would seem to be somehow to disintoxicate the issue.

We are justified in assuming, therefore, that one of the functions of the suprarenals is to disintoxicate the blood.

In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate.

Word Forms

• disintoxicates
• disintoxicating
• disintoxicated

Related Words

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