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ODOURISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to smell or be smelly

Synonyms:

odorize; odourise; scent

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

Cause:

smell (emit an odor)

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

smell up; stink out; stink up (cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell)

aromatise; aromatize; perfume (fill or impregnate with an odor)

cense; incense; thurify (perfume especially with a censer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

deodourise (eliminate the odor from)

Derivation:

odor (any property detected by the olfactory system)

odor (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)

odour (any property detected by the olfactory system)

odour (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)

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