Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To detoxify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to remove poison from.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb of a person To remove
poison (or its effects) from - verb To
counteract , or make less poisonous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove poison from
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