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toxifying

toxifying is the present participle and gerund of toxify.

Meaning of toxify

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

Questions about toxifying

What is toxifying the present participle and gerund of?
Toxifying is the present participle and gerund of toxify.

Words near toxifying in the dictionary

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

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