unpoison

English

Etymology

un- +‎ poison

Verb

unpoison (third-person singular simple present unpoisons, present participle unpoisoning, simple past and past participle unpoisoned)

  1. (obsolete) To remove or expel poison from.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      such a Course could not , but in a short time , have unpoisoned their perverted Minds , and rectified their false Notions

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unpoison in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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