DEOXIDIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deoxidize mean? 

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

1. to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEOXIDIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deoxidize    ... he / she / it deoxidizes   
Past simple: deoxidized   
Past participle: deoxidized   
-ing form: deoxidizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

deoxidise; deoxidize; reduce

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

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)

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

benficiate (subject to a reduction process)

pole (deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)