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oxydize

oxydize is the obsolete spelling of oxidize.

Meaning of oxidize

Verb

oxidize (third-person singular simple present oxidizes, present participle oxidizing, simple past and past participle oxidized)

  1. (transitive) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.
    • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of...2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
  2. To increase the valence (or the positive charge) of an element by removing electrons.
  3. To coat something with an oxide.
  4. (intransitive) To become oxidized.

Forms of oxydize

third-person singular presentoxydizes
present participleoxydizing
past participleoxydized
pastoxydized

Origin of oxydize

Spelling influenced by the 'y' of oxygen.

Questions about oxydize

What is oxydize the obsolete spelling of?
Oxydize is the obsolete spelling of oxidize.

Words near oxydize in the dictionary

  1. oxydised
  2. oxydises
  3. oxydising
  4. oxydization
  5. oxydizations
  6. oxydize
  7. oxydoreductase
  8. oxydoreductases
  9. oxyds
  10. oxyester
  11. oxyesters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oxydize (page history and authors); oxidize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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