MEANING
To add or impart an odor to a substance, often so that it can be detected by smell.
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Words that belong together
- odorize gas
- an odorized supply
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The supplier odorized the gas so a leak would be easier to notice.
The fictional habitat odorized the recycled stream to mark a routing fault.
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Word forms
- Base
- odorize
- Past tense
- odorized
- Past participle
- odorized
- Present participle
- odorizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- odorize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are odorizing
- Present perfect
- have/has odorized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been odorizing
- Past
- odorized
- Past continuous
- was/were odorizing
- Past perfect
- had odorized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been odorizing
- Future
- will odorize
- Future continuous
- will be odorizing
- Future perfect
- will have odorized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been odorizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: odorize; odorizes; odorized; odorized; odorizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: odorizes.
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