0 to remove harmful chemicals from the body or from something:
1 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.
2 to make a toxic (= poisonous) substance harmless, or to remove a harmful or toxic chemical from another substance:
An enlarged liver loses its ability to detoxify the body's waste products.
Conscientious mothers regularly detoxify kitchen surfaces in order to cut down risk of infection.
They promote detoxifying products like seaweed wraps and sea-salt baths.
She and her husband decided to detoxify as a pathway to healthier eating.
His literary bestseller "The Name Of The Rose" detoxified the medieval mystery genre.
Such ability is most likely mediated by parasite-host incompatibility, the general expression of antibacterial or detoxifying factors, and/or an inducible immune response.
After the trial had finished, the 'objects of study', two male drug addicts, were to be detoxified with the help of methadone.
These molecular reactions enable the insects to detect, detoxify or reject potentially toxic compounds in their diet.
