to toxify

Examples

• All

• When chemicals are improperly disposed of, they can toxify the soil and render it unsuitable for farming.

• I have here a proposaI showing how Wayne Enterprises can immediately... ...cease all actions that toxify our environment.

  Batman & Robin (1997)

• Yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your earth... and pursue ever more imaginative means to self destruction.

  I, Robot (2004)

• Pamela, I have here a proposal showing how Wayne Enterprises can immediately cease all actions that toxify our environment.

  Fiction book (1997)

• We have made air unbreathable (took more than one evil genius to do this!), toxified our living soil.

  Blog text (16)

• At one oil refinery site, we saw burnt-out cars, shattered storage tanks, and acres blackened with crude oil, leaving the groundwater toxified.

  Academic text (2000)

• Industrial waste can toxify local water sources, harming wildlife and making the water unsafe for drinking.

Synonyms

P

to poison

vsto toxify

262 3.3

To give a living thing a substance that makes it very ill or die

is about turning items harmful by adding dangerous substances not about direct killing

C

to contaminate

vsto toxify

248 4.9

To make things like water or soil unsafe by adding harmful substances

focuses on causing harm by adding dangerous substances rather than mere impurity

E

to envenom

vsto toxify

• Formal

9.8

To put poison into something to make it poisonous

is broader making things harmful by adding dangerous substances

Antonyms

P

to purify

30 4.6

To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean

How Toxic

to toxify

1 8.2

to pollute

109 3.4

to contaminate

248 4.9

to taint

126 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology