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tox

tox is the clipping of toxicity.

tox is the clipping of toxicology.

tox is the clipping of Botox.

Meaning of toxicity

Noun

toxicity (usually uncountable, plural toxicities)

  1. (usually) The quality or degree of being toxic.
    • drug toxicity
    Synonyms:
    poisonousness, tox

Meaning of toxicology

Noun

toxicology (countable and uncountable, plural toxicologies)

  1. The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.
    Synonyms:
    tox

Adjective

tox (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
    • crashing tox patient

Origin of tox

Clippings.

Words formed from tox

Questions about tox

What does tox mean?
Tox means affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
What is tox the clipping of?
Tox is the clipping of toxicity.
What part of speech is tox?
Tox is an adjective.

Words near tox in the dictionary

  1. towzle
  2. towzled
  3. towzles
  4. towzling
  5. towzy
  6. tox
  7. tox-
  8. toxaemia
  9. toxaemia of pregnancy
  10. toxaemias
  11. toxaemias of pregnancy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tox (page history and authors); toxicity (page history and authors); toxicology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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