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Definition of Detoxify

1. Verb. Remove poison from. "Detoxify the soil"

2. Verb. Treat for alcohol or drug dependence. "He was detoxified in the clinic"

Definition of Detoxify

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detoxify

1. to remove a toxin from [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Medical Definition of Detoxify

1. To reduce the toxicity of a substance by either making it less harmful or Treating patients suffering from poisoning in such a way as to reduce the probability and/or severity of harmful effects. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detoxify

detoxicant detoxicants detoxicate detoxicated detoxicates detoxicating detoxication detoxications detoxification detoxification reaction

detoxification unit detoxifications detoxified detoxifier detoxifies detoxify (current term) detoxifying detoxing detract detractable

detracted detracteth detracting detractingly detraction detractions detractious detractive detractively detractiveness

Literary usage of Detoxify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"Thermal destruction research is evaluating and developing thermal processes to destroy or detoxify hazardous and other waste materials. ..."

2. Dioxin Treatment Technologies by Florence Poillon (1994)
"Nonthermal Treatment Technologies DECHLORINATION TECHNOLOGIES The ultimate objective of all dechlorination methods is to destroy or detoxify hazardous ..."

3. Approval and Monitoring of Narcotic Treatment Programs: A Guide on the Roles by Lynne C. McArthur, Yvonne Goldsberry (1998)
"A physician or authorized hospital may administer or dispense narcotic drugs in a hospital to maintain or detoxify a patient as an adjunct to medical or ..."

4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"... Genotypes are responsible for interindividual differences in ability to activate or detoxify genotoxic agents as biomarkers of susceptibility. ..."

5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1908)
"As a result of this, in some way or other unknown to us, a diminished power of oxidation results and the organization loses the power to detoxify substances ..."

6. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1907)
"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 ..."

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