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disintoxicated

disintoxicated is the simple past and past participle of disintoxicate.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about disintoxicated

What is disintoxicated the simple past and past participle of?
Disintoxicated is the simple past and past participle of disintoxicate.

Words near disintoxicated in the dictionary

  1. disinthralling
  2. disinthrallment
  3. disinthralls
  4. disinthrals
  5. disintoxicate
  6. disintoxicated
  7. disintoxicates
  8. disintoxicating
  9. disintoxication
  10. disintoxications
  11. disintricate

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