👉 The term "toxicate" is a term used in linguistics to describe a word that has been contaminated with another word, either by accident or through an intentional change. In other words, it refers to a word that is altered or corrupted due to its original meaning being altered or changed. For example: - The word "toxic" can be considered toxicate because of the alteration in its meaning from "to poison someone" to "to cause harm." This alteration could have been intentional
