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 and divides as o-dou-rise 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 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.