deodorize
verb (used with object)
to rid of odor, especially of unpleasant odor.
deodorise
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a variation of
deodorize.
Example Sentences
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Simply squeeze a couple of drops of this essential-oil blend into the toilet basin to deodorise the room and make it smell of orange zest.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017
It also employs a small army of street sanitation workers who disinfect and deodorise thousands of square metres of walls and pavements every month.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2017
In a run of this kind, six square feet should be allowed to each fowl kept, for a smaller surface of the dry earth becomes moist and will then no longer deodorise the dung.
"To deodorise" is to gild the statue of a heathen deity.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
It was in an effort to deodorise the atmosphere, charged with the ghastly, that he said it.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
