Word Meanings - INOXIDIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.

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• INOXIDIZE
  To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• OXIDATION
  The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• HINDERER
  One who, or that which, hinders.
• HINDERANCE
  See HINDRANCE
• INOXIDIZABLE
  Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.
• PREVENTER
  An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates , fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging. -- Preventer stay. Same as Preventer, 3. (more info) 1. One who goes before; one who forestalls or
• HINDER
  Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38. (more info) OHG. hintar, prep., behind, G. hinter, Goth.
• PREVENTION
  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing
• DECAYED
  Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.
• PREVENTIVE
  1. Going before; preceding. Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth. 2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Physic is either curative or preventive.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• PEROXIDATION
  Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.
• UNPREVENTED
  1. Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak. 2. Not preceded by anything. Milton.