Definitions

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

  • transitive verb To treat or combine with iodine or an iodide.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, to treat with iodine; affect with iodine.
  • In photography, to impregnate, as collodion, with iodine; add iodine or an iodide to.

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

  • transitive verb To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds.

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

  • verb to treat or react with iodine

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

  • verb treat with iodine
  • verb treat with iodine so as to prevent infection

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Examples

  • The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release.

    Quake Renews Call to Enforce Pill Law Rebecca Smith 2011

  • To iodize the plate perfectly it must be placed over the iodine vapor immediately after buffing.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • MI says the average cost to iodize salt is 5 cents a person, per year, rising to 10 cents depending on how small or remote a producer is and how difficult it is to deliver the product to hard-to-reach populations.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • We roll out multi-billion dollar anti-retroviral programs for AIDS, but we don't even deworm kids or iodize salt - two simple interventions that would raise school attendance, reduce malnutrition and anemia, and prevent cognitive impairment and even cretinism. is a Columbia University expert on public health who has spent the last couple of years living in Rwanda.

    Nicholas D. Kristof 2009

  • We roll out multi-billion dollar anti-retroviral programs for AIDS, but we don't even deworm kids or iodize salt - two simple interventions that would raise school attendance, reduce malnutrition and anemia, and prevent cognitive impairment and even cretinism. is a Columbia University expert on public health who has spent the last couple of years living in Rwanda.

    Nicholas D. Kristof 2009

  • This would get around the refusal of Indian salt manufacturers to iodize their salt, preventing untold cases of goiter and low intelligence.

    NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2009

  • Always good to see them taking time out from their busy corporate fucking cocksucking schedules to iodize the stomachs and fatten the thighs of young adults worldwide.

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