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to toxify

to toxify

8.0
To make a relationship or situation harmful and unpleasant
  • verb
  • /ˈtɒksɪfaɪ/
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  • It's a terrible thing when the most healing and sacred of all relationships a human can have has been toxified like this.

And that's what's sort of toxifying our minds and trapping us.

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Examples

  • And that's what's sort of toxifying our minds and trapping us.

    Tom Bilyeu

  • So, so that toxifies our politics.

  • So take that and, like, toxify it a billion times in the Middle East, and it becomes very, very difficult.

    Theo Von

  • We could at least prevent toxifying it further in the future.

    Blog text (20)

  • It's worth pointing out that not only is our habit of consuming mass quantities of junk toxifying our lives and our environment with all sorts of chemicals and pollution, it's also using up a number of nonrenewable resources at an alarming rate.

    Blog text (15)

  • Toxic behavior can easily toxify a workplace, making it uncomfortable for everyone.

  • The constant arguments and negativity began to toxify their friendship.

  • Pollution from factories can toxify local environments and harm the health of nearby residents.

Synonyms

to venomize
vsto toxify
1 9.5

To make people or groups angry and mean to each other

shows stronger hostility and malice rather than general harm
to poison your relationships
vsto toxify
7.6

Make people feel hurt, angry, or not trust you

means causing harm more generally to groups, places, or situations
to turn toxic
vsto toxify
6.8

To become very unpleasant and harmful in a relationship or group

implies causing the change rather than simply becoming bad
to disharmonize
vsto toxify
9.1

Make different things or sounds clash so they feel unpleasant

applies this harm to social situations and people instead of sounds

Antonyms

to nurture
155 3.5

To care for and encourage someone or something to grow

How Toxic

to toxify
8.0
to damage
885 1.4

Surface Forms

toxify infinitive
toxified past
toxified past participle
toxifying present participle
toxifies third person singular

Morphology

toxify = toxic (transparent) = tox + ify

The figurative sense ('make harmful or hostile') is a predictable extension of 'toxic' plus the causative '-ify'.

Etymology

Toxify comes from the same root as toxic and toxin, which mean 'poison', and the ending -fy means 'make'. So to toxify a relationship or place is to 'make' it poisonous, meaning it becomes harmful, unpleasant, or unfriendly.