Usually means: Remove nitrogen compounds from substance.
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  3. denitrify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. denitrify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. denitrify: Wiktionary
  9. denitrify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. denitrify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. denitrify: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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▸ verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To remove nitrogen, often through the breakdown of nitrogenous compounds and the release of nitrogen gas.

Similar:
denitrogenate, denitrate, deoxidize, dehydrogenate, demethanize, disoxygenate, denaturize, desulfurize, degasify, deoxygenate, more...

Opposite:
nitrogenize, nitrate

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Similar:
denitrogenate, denitrate, deoxidize, dehydrogenate, demethanize, disoxygenate, denaturize, desulfurize, degasify, deoxygenate, more...

Opposite:
nitrogenize, nitrate



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