detoxify.
To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
Meaning & usage
To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
To make something that is harmful more benign.
Where this word comes from
Attested since 1905 (twelve years earlier than toxify), from de- + tox- + -ify. (Detoxicate is attested one year earlier, since 1904.)
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