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AGENISE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they agenise ... he / she / it agenises
Past simple: agenised
-ing form: agenising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)
Synonyms:
Agenise; Agenize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)