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detoxify

The English word “detoxify” has 2 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
  2. To make something that is harmful more benign.

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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