chlorinate

English

Etymology

chlorine +‎ -ate

Verb

chlorinate (third-person singular simple present chlorinat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle chlorinated)

1. (transitive, chemistry) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• chlorinated
• chlorination

• chlorinator
• perchlorinate

Translations

to add chlorine to

• Arabic: كلور (kalwara)
• Finnish: kloorata
• French: chlorer (fr)
• Galician: clorar (gl)
• Ido: klorizar (io)
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• Italian: clorurare (it)
• Spanish: clorinar
• Swedish: klorera (sv)
• Turkish: klorlamak (tr)

Anagrams

• ectorhinal, trachelion