To remove or neutralize odor from something; to make something smell fresh or odorless.
From de- (remove) + odor (from Latin 'odoratus,' meaning having a smell) + -ize (from Greek '-izein'). Coined in American English in the late 1800s as commercial chemistry made odor control possible and profitable.
Deodorize is a surprisingly young word—fewer than 150 years old—yet we treat it as an ancient concept because removing odors *feels* timeless; really, before modern chemistry, humans just lived with body odor as a fact of life.
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