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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deodorize

Deodorize \De*o"dor*ize\, v. t. To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deodorize

1858; see de- + odor + -ize. Related: Deodorized; deodorizing.

Wiktionary
deodorize

alt. To mask or eliminate the odor of, or an odor in, (something). vb. To mask or eliminate the odor of, or an odor in, (something).

WordNet
deodorize

v. eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" [syn: deodorise, deodourise] [ant: odorize, odorize]

Usage examples of "deodorize".

It also seems to deodorize foul-smelling sores when applied in an ointment.

Surely ghouls and ghosts, goblins and monsters, had no power over those who were properly groomed, deodorized, fluoridated, dressed, fed, employed, and motivated.

He never got tired either, in his relentless tour of the deodorized facilities.

Spotless and deodorized and exactly symmetrical and a drawer full of peepshow underwear.

There they lived on impregnated pasteboard which was salvaged from the latrines, reimpregnated with nutrients and vitamins, deodorized and sterilized, and issued again the next day.

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He'd forgotten to slip back in the deodorizing plugs he'd removed while in the shuttle.

Life inside this overgrown hot-water heater had been pleasant enough, with moments of excitement, after Landis's stomach settled down and he had got used to the smell of fuel, sweat, food, and body wastes that no filters could ever scrub from the air and no amount of deodorizing could conceal.

Some had burdened themselves with equipment: digging implements, graders, weapons, deodorizing ointment, face-stains, camouflage.

He’d forgotten to slip back in the deodorizing plugs he’d removed while in the shuttle.

He'd forgotten to slip back in the deodorizing plugs he'd removed while in the shuttle.

For one thing, we show these people how to build pool tables and how to make a hair-setting spray from fish glue, deodorized.

Knowing me by now, the reader can easily imagine how dusty and hot I got, trying to catch a glimpse of nymphets (alas, always remote) playing in Central Park, and how repulsed I was by the glitter of deodorized career girls that a gay dog in one of the offices kept unloading upon me.

I get such a good feeling pillowing them, with their great deodorized armpits, their great tits and thighs and rears.

Polly's cranberry-red car was at Gippel's garage, being deodorized.