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sulphurise

sulphurise is the alternative spelling of sulfurize.

Meaning of sulfurize

Verb

sulfurize (third-person singular simple present sulfurizes, present participle sulfurizing, simple past and past participle sulfurized)

  1. To treat or react with sulfur or sulfur dioxide.

Forms of sulphurise

third-person singular presentsulphurises
present participlesulphurising
past participlesulphurised
pastsulphurised

Origin of sulphurise

From sulphur + -ise.

Questions about sulphurise

What is sulphurise the alternative spelling of?
Sulphurise is the alternative spelling of sulfurize.

Words near sulphurise in the dictionary

  1. sulphuricum
  2. sulphuriferous
  3. sulphurine
  4. sulphuring
  5. sulphurisation
  6. sulphurise
  7. sulphurised
  8. sulphurises
  9. sulphurising
  10. sulphurities
  11. sulphurity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphurise (page history and authors); sulfurize (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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