Word Meanings - DENITRIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
NITROGENOUS
of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds. Nitrogenous foods. See 2d Note under Food, n., 1.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
NITROGEN
A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life ; but it forms many important compounds, as
NITROGENIZE
To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath