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DETOXICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
detoxify the soil
Synonyms:
detoxicate; detoxify
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
