disintoxicatev.
transitive. To free from intoxication; to restore to soberness. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > moderation in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make sober
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disintoxicate1685
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1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 40 It disintoxicates those that are fuddled.
1936 Scrutiny 4 iv. 381 The next stanza is the only one in the poem to be completely disintoxicated and disenchanted.
1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 27 In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate.
Derivatives
disintoxiˈcation n. removal of the effects of intoxication.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > moderation in drinking > [noun] > sobriety > restoration to
disintoxication1927
1927 Scots Observer 20 Aug. 9/5 ‘Spiritual life,’ says Mr. Santayana, ‘is not a worship of values whether found in things or hypostatised into supernatural powers. It is the exact opposite; it is disintoxication from their influence.’
1930 Advt. Natural mineral water of Contrexéville. Diuretic and for disintoxication.
1935 Mind 44 94 The lesson of that tragedy is acceptance of life, not through intoxication and excess, but through disintoxication, submission, conciliation, self-limitation.
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