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toxify

toxify verb: to make or render toxic.

Verb

toxify (third-person singular simple present toxifies, present participle toxifying, simple past and past participle toxified)

  1. (transitive) To make or render toxic.
    • The experiments made with this objective showed that agar-gel could toxify a rat serum which had been heated at 45 an 50 C. for half an hour.1917 June, F. G Novy, P. H. DeKruif, “Nonspecific anaphylactic shock in sensitized rats”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, number 6, page 819

Antonyms of toxify

Forms of toxify

third-person singular presenttoxifies
present participletoxifying
past participletoxified
pasttoxified

Origin of toxify

Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify.

Words formed from toxify

Questions about toxify

What does toxify mean?
Toxify means to make or render toxic.
What part of speech is toxify?
Toxify is a verb.
What is the past tense of toxify?
The past tense of toxify is toxified.

Words near toxify in the dictionary

  1. toxified
  2. toxifier
  3. toxifiers
  4. toxifies
  5. toxifilin
  6. toxify
  7. toxifying
  8. toxigenesis
  9. toxigenic
  10. toxigenicities
  11. toxigenicity

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