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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

Passing them over, the zinc-copper couple does not suffice to deodorize the impure spirits, so they must be sent directly to a rectifier.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 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

These oils are exposed to extremely high heat, sometimes bleached, sometimes deodorized because they smell so bad after such extraction measures; the heat alone can turn these oils into trans fats.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2023

“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

They convey only water which has been chemically purified and deodorized before it enters them by an apparatus connected with every dwelling.

From Equality by Edward Bellamy

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

Depending on the type of mattress you have, baking soda can be a powerful deodorizing agent.

From Seattle Times Jan. 16, 2024

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

Again, in the purification of foul gas, as well as for ventilating and deodorizing man-holes for cesspools, sewers, &c., its use is found to be unsurpassed by any other known material.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones




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