NITROGENIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrogenize mean? 

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

1. treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROGENIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they nitrogenize    ... he / she / it nitrogenizes   
Past simple: nitrogenized   
Past participle: nitrogenized   
-ing form: nitrogenizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

nitrify; nitrogenise; nitrogenize

Hypernyms (to "nitrogenize" 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:

nitrogen (a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues)