deoxidise

Other forms of deoxidise

past tense

deoxidised·

present participle

deoxidising·

third person

deoxidises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deoxidise

What does deoxidise mean?

deoxidise means "to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons".

How many syllables are in deoxidise?

deoxidise has 4 syllables: de-ox-i-dise. The stress falls on "ox".

What is another word for deoxidise?

Close synonyms include deoxidize, reduce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deoxidise?

The recorded antonyms are oxidise.

Is deoxidise a common word?

deoxidise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.