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DENITRIFY (denitrified)
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Irregular inflected form: denitrified
Dictionary entry overview: What does denitrify mean?
• DENITRIFY (verb)
The verb DENITRIFY has 1 sense:
1. remove nitrogen from
Familiarity information: DENITRIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they denitrify ... he / she / it denitrifies
Past simple: denitrified
Past participle: denitrified
-ing form: denitrifying
... he / she / it denitrifies Past simple: denitrified
Past participle: denitrified
-ing form: denitrifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove nitrogen from
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Denitrify the soil
Hypernyms (to "denitrify" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
nitrify (treat (soil) with nitrates)
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