Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To subject to detoxification.
  • noun A section of a hospital or clinic in which patients are detoxified.
  • noun A course of treatment involving detoxification.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified; -- often used attributively.
  • noun detoxification.
  • transitive verb informal to detoxify.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun detoxification, especially of alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs.
  • noun A detoxification unit.
  • verb detoxify, especially from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified
  • verb treat for alcohol or drug dependence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for detoxify.]

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Examples

  • The scientists, however, say the term detox has no meaning outside the treatment for drug addiction or poisoning and the body is capable of looking after itself.

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  • Ariel Werner '09 has finally entered "detox" - election detox, that is.

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  • Some day we hope you grow up and can detox from the brainwashing you received in school.

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  • Research shows that clients of Insite increased their use of both its short-term detox and long-term drug treatment facilities.

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  • Research shows that clients of Insite increased their use of both its short-term detox and long-term drug treatment facilities.

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  • The hunt usually starts of a Friday, so after three days most everyone else leaves and goes back to work, and I'm just starting to really fully detox from a year of computerdeskitis.

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  • Not quite as easy as cutting calories is a practice I call detox.

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  • And then I would fund a lot more short term detox beds than there currently are in our province so that people who are stoned/drunk don't have to take up a bed in the emergency room of a hospital with 2 police officers watching over them not to mention the nurses/doctors/unsuspecting sick people in the next bed over.

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  • Foot detox is a popular treatment that has been so heavily endorsed that if it proved to be nonsense, most mainstream sources would be reluctant to recant.

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  • Foot detox is a popular treatment that has been so heavily endorsed that if it proved to be nonsense, most mainstream sources would be reluctant to recant.

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