"toxify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: toxifies [present, singular, third-person], toxifying [participle, present], toxified [participle, past], toxified [past]
Etymology: Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|detoxify|nocap=1}} back-formation from detoxify, {{affix|en|toxic|-ify|alt1=tox-}} tox- + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} toxify (third-person singular simple present toxifies, present participle toxifying, simple past and past participle toxified)
  1. (transitive) To make or render toxic. Tags: transitive Derived forms: detoxify, retoxify, toxifier

Inflected forms

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        {
          "word": "detoxify"
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(transitive) To make or render toxic."
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        "(transitive) To make or render toxic."
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}

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