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 and divides as de-ox-i-dise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.