DETOXICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detoxicate mean? 

• DETOXICATE (verb)
  The verb DETOXICATE has 1 sense:

1. remove poison from

  Familiarity information: DETOXICATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETOXICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they detoxicate    ... he / she / it detoxicates   
Past simple: detoxicated   
Past participle: detoxicated   
-ing form: detoxicating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove poison from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

detoxicate; detoxify

Context example:

detoxify the soil

Hypernyms (to "detoxicate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something