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AGENISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Agenise mean?
• AGENISE (verb)
The verb AGENISE has 1 sense:
1. age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)
Familiarity information: AGENISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they agenise ... he / she / it agenises
Past simple: agenised
Past participle: agenised
-ing form: agenising
... he / she / it agenises Past simple: agenised
Past participle: agenised
-ing form: agenising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Agenise; Agenize
Hypernyms (to "Agenise" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
Agene (a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour)
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