AGENIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agenize mean? 

• AGENIZE (verb)
  The verb AGENIZE has 1 sense:

1. age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)

  Familiarity information: AGENIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGENIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they agenize    ... he / she / it agenizes   
Past simple: agenized   
Past participle: agenized   
-ing form: agenizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

Agenise; Agenize

Hypernyms (to "Agenize" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

Agene (a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour)