denicotinize

English

Verb

denicotinize (third-person singular simple present denicotinizes, present participle denicotinizing, simple past and past participle denicotinized)

1. (transitive) to remove some or all of the nicotine from tobacco.
   • 1873, United States. Patent Office, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office, page 200:

     My invention relates to a chemical preparation, compound, or mixture to be used in pipes, pipe-stems, and cigar-holders, in any convenient mode or form, to denicotinize and deodorize tobacco-smoke,

   • 1933, Bulletin of Hygiene:

     The solution of the problem how to denicotinize without destroying flavour is extraordinarily difficult and appears to be only partially solved.

   • 2001, Michael Pertschuk, Smoke in their eyes: lessons in movement leadership from the tobacco wars, Vanderbilt Univ Pr:

     Kessler was extremely careful to avoid any suggestion that FDA was prepared to take radical action to prohibit — or denicotinize — cigarettes.

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• Italian: denicotinizzare (it)