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ODORIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they odorize ... he / she / it odorizes
Past simple: odorized
Past participle: odorized
-ing form: odorizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to smell or be smelly
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "odorize" is one way to...):
cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)
Cause:
smell (emit an odor)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "odorize"):
smell up; stink out; stink up (cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell)
aromatise; aromatize; perfume (fill or impregnate with an odor)
cense; incense; thurify (perfume especially with a censer)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
deodorize (eliminate the odor from)
Derivation:
odor (any property detected by the olfactory system)
odor (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)
