detoxify
verb🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪ/
🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪ/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they detoxify | 🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪ/ 🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it detoxifies | 🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪz/ 🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple detoxified | 🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪd/ 🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle detoxified | 🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪd/ 🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form detoxifying | 🔊/diːˈtɒksɪfaɪɪŋ/ 🔊/diːˈtɑːksɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- detoxify (something)
to remove harmful substances or poisons from something; to become free from harmful substances 排毒；解毒；去毒；除去…的毒素 She recommends bitter greens to cleanse and detoxify the body. 她建议使用苦瓜来清洁和排毒身体。 You can help your body detoxify by cutting down on coffee. 少喝咖啡有助于体内排毒。
to stop drinking too much alcohol or taking drugs; to treat somebody in order to help them do this 戒酒；戒毒 - detoxify (from something)
to detoxify from heroin addiction 从海洛因成瘾中解毒 - detoxify somebody (from something)
He was twice detoxified from heroin. 他受过两次戒除海洛因的治疗。
- detoxify (from something)
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from de- (expressing removal) + Latin toxicum ‘poison’ + -fy.