deodorizev.
/diːˈəʊdərʌɪz/ transitive. To deprive of odour, esp. of offensive or noisome odour; to take away the (bad) smell of. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > inodorousness > deodorize [verb (transitive)]
pall1547
unscent1632
deodorize1858
1858 Sat. Rev. 5 632/1 To defecate and deodorize the sewage of London.
1863 Sat. Rev. 203 Sin and wickedness are carefully deodorised now-a-days before they can get into print.
1870 Observer 13 Nov. Liquid portions of the sewage..when deodorised being allowed to flow away.
Derivatives
deˈodorized adj.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > inodorousness > [adjective]
unsmellingc1440
savourless1552
scentless1605
smell-lessa1625
inodorate1626
vapidc1750
unfetid1755
unscented1785
unsmelled1812
odourless1836
perfumeless1854
incenseless1856
deodorized1875
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 226 The deodorized tincture of opium.
deˈodorizing adj. and n.
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deodorizing1856
1856 Engineer II. 671/3 (Sewage of towns) The deodorising system has..achieved a perfect success at Leicester.
c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 97/1 A bleaching and deodorising agent.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 179 The essential properties of chlorinated compounds are bleaching and deodorising.
deodoriˈzation n. removal of (bad) smell.
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deodorization1856
1856 Engineer II. 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.
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