Associations to the word «Chlorinate»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

CHLORINATE, verb. Treat or combine with chlorine; "chlorinated water".
CHLORINATE, verb. Disinfect with chlorine; "chlorinate a pool".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne