Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To decarbonize.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive wholly or in part of carbon: the opposite of carburize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To decarbonize

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove carbon from (an engine)

Etymologies

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de- +‎ carburize

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