ODORIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they odorize ... he / she / it odorizes

Past simple: odorized

Past participle: odorized

-ing form: odorizing

Meaning:

Cause to smell or be smelly

Synonyms:

odorize; odourise; scent

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "odorize" 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 "odorize"):

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:

deodorize (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)