odourise

Other forms of odourise

past tense

odourised·

present participle

odourising·

third person

odourises·

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 odourise

What does odourise mean?

odourise means "cause to smell or be smelly".

How many syllables are in odourise?

odourise has 3 syllables: o-dou-rise. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for odourise?

Close synonyms include odorize, scent. 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 odourise?

The recorded antonyms are deodourise.

Is odourise a common word?

odourise 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.