Betekenis van detoxifying In het Nederlands

• 0 present participle of detoxify

• 1 to remove harmful chemicals from the body or from something:

  • The chamber is used to detoxify patients with acute carbon-monoxide poisoning.

  • Caterpillars eat cherry leaves containing cyanide, but they rapidly detoxify them.

  • The idea of the diet was to detoxify the body.

  • Believing that a person can rid themselves of poisons through detoxifying, he says, is magical thinking.

• 2 to change or get rid of negative or damaging ideas that people connect with a company, product, political party, etc.:

  • He embarked on a systematic campaign to detoxify the party brand.