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detoxified

detoxified is the simple past and past participle of detoxify.

Meaning of detoxify

Verb

detoxify (third-person singular simple present detoxifies, present participle detoxifying, simple past and past participle detoxified)

  1. (transitive) To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
    • 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; […]1907, John Howland, “Some possible etiological factors in the recurrent vomiting of children”, in Transactions of the American Pediatric Society, volume 18, page 295
  2. (transitive) To make something that is harmful more benign.
    • We can either break as a nation or find a way to detoxify our politics.2023, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, page 2

Words formed from detoxified

Questions about detoxified

What is detoxified the simple past and past participle of?
Detoxified is the simple past and past participle of detoxify.

Words near detoxified in the dictionary

  1. detoxification unit
  2. detoxification units
  3. detoxifications
  4. detoxificative
  5. detoxificatory
  6. detoxified
  7. detoxifier
  8. detoxifiers
  9. detoxifies
  10. detoxify
  11. detoxifying

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