Usually means: Remove toxic substances from body.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word detoxicate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. detoxicate: Merriam-Webster
  2. detoxicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detoxicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detoxicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detoxicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. detoxicate: Wordnik
  7. detoxicate: Wiktionary
  8. detoxicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. detoxicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. detoxicate: Dictionary.com
  11. detoxicate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. detoxicate: Rhymezone
  13. detoxicate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. detoxicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. detoxicate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. detoxicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. detoxicate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detoxicate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See detoxicant as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detoxicate)

▸ verb:  (of a person) To remove poison (or its effects) from.
▸ verb:  (of a poison) To counteract, or make less poisonous.

Similar:
detoxify, detox, de-toxify, disintoxicate, detoxificate, unpoison, cleanse, dealcoholize, deoxygenate, decorporate, more...

Opposite:
intoxicate, poison, contaminate, pollute

Types:
sober up, cleanse, abstain, more...
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Similar:
detoxify, detox, de-toxify, disintoxicate, detoxificate, unpoison, cleanse, dealcoholize, deoxygenate, decorporate, more...

Opposite:
intoxicate, poison, contaminate, pollute

Types:
sober up, cleanse, abstain, more...



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