azotize

English

Alternative forms

• azotise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

• azote +‎ -ize

Verb

azotize (third-person singular simple present azotizes, present participle azotizing, simple past and past participle azotized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To impregnate with azote (nitrogen).

Synonyms

• nitrogenate, nitrogenise, nitrogenize

Derived terms

• hexazotized
• nonazotized
• unazotized

References

• “azotize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “azotize”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.