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toxify

verb

toxify is a verb meaning “To make or render toxic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-X-I-F-Y, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does toxify mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To make or render toxic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of toxify

  • toxifies present, singular, he/she/it
  • toxifying participle, present
  • toxified participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is toxify?

Toxify appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does toxify come from?

Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).