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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

It was in an effort to deodorise the atmosphere, charged with the ghastly, that he said it.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar

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.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

"To deodorise" is to gild the statue of a heathen deity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir