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deodorize

[dee-oh-duh-rahyz] / diˈoʊ dəˌraɪz /


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Lineage is also using misters inside the building to try to deodorize the food until it is removed from the site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Greene tosses ice cubes and baking soda into his disposal every week or so to deodorize it.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

Sprinkle it on carpets or rugs to clean and deodorize, or mix with dish soap to clean your sink.

From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2021

Keep garbage cans clean and deodorize them with bleach or ammonia.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2017

Night-soil is an excellent manure for all bulky crops, but requires to be mixed with earth or peat, or coal-ashes, so as both to deodorize it and to ensure its being equally distributed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

While the lemon deodorizes any unwanted smells, the salt scrapes off any remaining residue.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2023

But in showing lots of faces headed for the loo, the spray that deodorizes air by reodorizing it pulls it off with a spot asking whether your bathroom is ready for America’s “halftime bathroom break.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2017

First, lactic-acid bacteria are added after each defecation: the anaerobic fermentation sanitizes and deodorizes.

From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2012

The powdered bark is very useful as an application to indolent ulcers which it instantly deodorizes; like powdered quinine it is used in the treatment of superficial gangrene.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

The oil is extracted from sources such as soybeans, palm fruit, canola seeds, sunflower seeds, and corn, and is then refined, bleached, and deodorized to make it more palatable.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

“I went down to the front desk to see if there were any rooms that had been cleaned and deodorized the day before, so the scent would not be as strong.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

Until Wynnewood’s pretreater unit is up and running the company plans to run refined deodorized and bleached soybean oil and treated corn oil.

From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2021

For a brief period, perhaps, the players themselves deodorized the smell coming from College Park with their valiant play.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2018

Petrarchism returned, madrigals came in vogue, the social atmosphere was deodorized again.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Throughout the process, Huml also uses a variety of machines to clean the air, including air scrubbers, deodorizing hydroxyl generators and negative air machines that clean the air and push it outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

After encountering speculation that yogurt might have a deodorizing effect, Barringer and first author Manpreet Kaur, a PhD student in her lab, decided to check it out.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

For combination products, you have to choose between which effect you want to be stronger, the sweat-blocking plug or the deodorizing fragrance, says Shari Lipner, an associate professor of clinical dermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023

It can get too cold to shower at increasingly high altitudes; bring deodorizing wipes to freshen up after a long day of trekking.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

The use of chemicals for precipitating, deodorizing, and disinfecting.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various


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