Third person singular present tense of demagnetize; removes the magnetic properties from something.
From demagnetize, the base verb. The -izes ending is a standard present-tense conjugation in English, derived from the Latin third-person singular -izat. The verb demagnetize emerged in the 19th century with industrial magnetism applications.
When you swipe your old credit card through a demagnetizer at the store checkout, you're destroying the magnetic stripe data—this is why old payment methods became obsolete! Modern security relies on this principle to keep sensitive magnetic information from being accidentally corrupted.
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