ODORIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odorize mean? 

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

1. cause to smell or be smelly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODORIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they odorize    ... he / she / it odorizes   
Past simple: odorized   
Past participle: odorized   
-ing form: odorizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to smell or be smelly

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

odorize; odourise; scent

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

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

Cause:

smell (emit an odor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "odorize"):

smell up; stink out; stink up (cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell)

aromatise; aromatize; perfume (fill or impregnate with an odor)

cense; incense; thurify (perfume especially with a censer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

deodorize (eliminate the odor from)

Derivation:

odor (any property detected by the olfactory system)

odor (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)