disintoxicate
/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/
verb
- To remove poison or harmful substances from something; to detoxify.
- The clinic helps patients disintoxicate their bodies after years of substance abuse.
- After the chemical spill, workers had to disintoxicate the soil before it was safe to plant crops.
- Special filters are used to disintoxicate the water supply in the village.
- To free someone from the influence of a harmful or addictive substance, such as alcohol or drugs.
- The program aims to disintoxicate young people who have become dependent on opioids.
- The center provides a safe environment to disintoxicate patients under medical supervision.
- It took months of therapy to fully disintoxicate him from his addiction to sleeping pills.
- To rid a person or group of harmful ideas, influences, or habits (figurative use).
- It is difficult to disintoxicate a society from years of propaganda.
- The teacher tried to disintoxicate her students from the false information they had learned online.
- He needed to disintoxicate his mind from the constant negativity of social media.
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