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deodorize, v.|diːˈəʊdəraɪz|
[f. de- II. 1 + L. odor odour + -ize.]
trans. To deprive of odour, esp. of offensive or noisome odour; to take away the (bad) smell of. Also fig.
1858Sat. Rev. V. 632/1 To defecate and deodorize the sewage of London. 1870Observer 13 Nov., Liquid portions of the sewage..when deodorised being allowed to flow away.
fig.1863Sat. Rev. 203 Sin and wickedness are carefully deodorised now-a-days before they can get into print.
Hence deˈodorized, deˈodorizing ppl. adjs.; also deodoriˈzation, removal of (bad) smell.
1856Engineer II. 671/3 (Sewage of towns) The deodorising system has..achieved a perfect success at Leicester. Ibid. 672/1 Deodorisation, in its practical sense, does not simply mean the removal of offensive smell, but the purification of the water by the abstraction of all extraneous matter. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 97/1 A bleaching and deodorising agent. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 226 The deodorized tincture of opium. 1876Harley Mat. Med. 179 The essential properties of chlorinated compounds are bleaching and deodorising. |