to detox
- verb
- /ˈdiːtɑːks/
- Many people choose to detox by eliminating processed foods from their diet for a week.
- detox the body
- try to detox
- help you detox
So they take something to detox or cleanse themselves.
- So they take something to detox or cleanse themselves.
- It really helps to detox your scalp and detox your hair.
- And so then when they detoxed the BPA plastic out, the mouse lost weight.
- Also, I know coffee is not the best thing for detoxing but I wanted it so oops.
- By doing this, you're going to give your liver a chance to detox and D fat.
- And autophagy is the state that our cells go into where they heal themselves, where they detox themselves.
Examples
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Drinking water is the easiest way to detox your body and flush out the toxins.
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All of these products are great for cleansing and detoxing the body.
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I think it is time to let the body detox and rest.
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Look, I'm going to go out, try to detox for a little bit.
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So they take something to detox or cleanse themselves.
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I have to detox, get rid of these secretions...
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I've been on prenatal since January 2012, plus drinking green juices to help detox.
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The first week I was detoxing from wheat and other grains, I had a migraine every day for five days straight.
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However, having spent the past several months trying to detox my body from its sugar addiction and trying to adopt a more healthy lifestyle in general, having massive amounts of chocolate, caramel, and yummy candy-coated shells sitting around my house is basically like dietary suicide.
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Drinking herbal tea is an effective way to detox after the holidays.
Synonyms
Remove waste or harmful substances from the body
To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean
To remove unwanted things from water, air, or lists by letting the rest pass
To make someone vomit or empty their stomach to remove harmful substances
To remove harmful substances from a place or thing to make it safe
To help a person remove alcohol or drugs from their body in a medical setting
To remove dangerous substances from people, equipment, or areas
To remove harmful things from the body or a computer
Remove harmful substances from the body by drinking more water or sweating
To clean a wound or the skin by washing away dirt and germs
Take harmful substances out of something to make it safe
Removes harmful or unwanted substances to make something clean
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
detox = detoxify (semi-transparent) = de + tox
This sense aligns with the straightforward 'remove harmful substances' meaning derived from 'detoxify', but the clipped form and non-standalone root make it partially non-transparent.
Etymology
Detox comes from de- 'remove' and tox as in toxic 'poison'. So to detox by diet means trying to remove harmful substances from your body by changing what you eat.