Iodize

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  • transitive verb. To treat or combine with iodine or an iodide.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In medicine, to treat with iodine; affect with iodine.
  • In photography, to impregnate, as collodion, with iodine; add iodine or an iodide to.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to treat or react with iodine
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. treat with iodine
  • verb. treat with iodine so as to prevent infection
    • Word Usage
    "The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release."
    Form
    iodized  iodizing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    care for  process  treat  
    verb-form
    iodized  iodizes  iodizing  
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