disintoxicate

Verb

disintoxicate (third-person singular simple present disintoxicates, present participle disintoxicating, simple past and past participle disintoxicated)

1. To neutralize the intoxicating effects of
   • We all admit an individual, functional power for the elimination of waste products which, as life goes on, is likely to lessen, a stage being reached at which the cells, especially those of the liver, if not of other organs, have diminished or lost their function to disintoxicate certain products...1918, New York Medical Journal - Volume 108, page 57
2. To remove or counter an intoxicating substance from
   • We are justified in assuming, therefore, that one of the functions of the suprarenals is to disintoxicate the blood.1903, Albert Henry Buck, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science, Volume 6, page 412
   • Failure to relieve chronic constipation by the employment of such vegetable drugs as are commonly combined in the so-called anti-constipation pills or tablets results from the simple fact that these agents do not disintoxicate the muscular coat of the intestinal tract.1912, The Medical World - Volume 30, page 336
3. To disenchant; to restore a realistic perspective.
   • Our greatest need vis-a-vis China would seem to be somehow to disintoxicate the issue.1966, Edmund O. Stillman, William Pfaff, Power and Impotence: The Failure of America's Foreign Policy
   • 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.1993, A. Trevor Tolley, Roy Fuller: A Tribute, page 30