de-iodinate

1. 1.

   remove iodine from

   “de-iodinate the thyroxine”

   Antonymsiodinate

   Broaderremove

Questions about de-iodinate

What does de-iodinate mean?

de-iodinate means "remove iodine from".

How many syllables are in de-iodinate?

de-iodinate has 4 syllables: de--io-di-nate. The stress falls on "io".

What is the opposite of de-iodinate?

The recorded antonyms are iodinate.

Is de-iodinate a common word?

de-iodinate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.