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单词 dry out
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dry out
c. dry out. intransitive. Of a drug-addict: to undergo a course of treatment designed to break dependence on the drug; of an alcoholic: to undergo a similar course of systematic disintoxication. Also transitive, to cure (a drug addict or an alcoholic) in this way. So dry-out n. drying-out n. and adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] > from addiction
dry out1967
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > treat specific diseases or conditions [verb (transitive)] > cure of addiction to drugs or alcohol
cold turkey1960
dry out1967
detox1972
1967 Guardian 8 Feb. 7/3 They are not only making firmer contact with the addicts..but also giving some of those they have ‘dried out’ a purpose.
1967 Guardian 8 Feb. 7/5 The painful process of the detoxification ward, the ‘dry-out’.
1969 New Scientist 13 Mar. 554/1 The removal of alcohol from the blood by using the artificial kidney may be found to be the safest (and cheapest) way of ‘drying out’ alcoholics in a state of acute intoxication.
1969 Maclean's Aug. 55/2 Too often a drinker ‘dries out’ and his case is closed.
1970 R. Haughton Love v. 143 A boy or girl would be pulled through a ‘bad patch’ (and the ‘patches’ of a drug-addict ‘drying out’ are very bad indeed).
1970 E. Tidyman Shaft (1971) iii. 41 By eight, she had undergone..the drying-out procedure in private institutions.
1971 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 2 Drunks arrested by police in future may have to spend a compulsory three days in a ‘drying out’ centre.
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