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单词 toxify
释义

toxify

/ˈtɒksɪfʌɪ /
verb (toxifies, toxifying, toxified) [with object]
1Cause or allow a toxic substance to enter (water, the air, etc.): the process toxifies large amounts of water and requires large amounts of electricity...
  • Piperonyl Butoxide works by decreasing the body's ability to toxify other chemicals.
  • The painkillers slowly shut down their kidney function and they toxify their liver to the point where it just can't work any more.
  • We seem to be "not that different from flour worms" that toxify their living environment long before they run out of resources.
1.1Have a damaging effect on: he claimed he was the victim of a deliberate attempt to toxify the Conservative Party...
  • He has spoken for the first time of the "sustained attempt to toxify the Conservative Party" and the attack on his reputation.
  • The campaign has set out to toxify him as a greedy executive.
  • She leaves it to others to utter the words 'pain' and 'divorce', as if those words might toxify the purity of her brand.

Derivatives

toxification

/tɒksɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ...
  • Plastic waste is leading to the toxification of soil and water and the deaths of millions of animals.
  • That the scope of his wider contributions can be balanced favorably against his role in this toxification of Western European left-wing thought is all well and good, but it does not change the fact that he did it.
  • The toxification of the biosphere by man-made poisons is one of the litany of ecological disasters that is bringing us undone.
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