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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

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

The point of the ad: Since Dave won’t be at your Super Bowl party, but everyone else will, you should probably buy some Febreze to deodorize your bathroom after your gluttonous friends destroy it.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2018

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

From Washington Times Aug. 2, 2017

V. be inodorous &c. adj.†; not smell. deodorize.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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

Better than Brick, it was a deodorized Limburger, both a man's cheese and one that cheese-conscious women adored.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown

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

Probably the best known contrivance for deodorizing the excreta is the dry earth system as applied in the earth closet, in which advantage is taken of the deodorizing properties of earth.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various




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