"phlegmatize" meaning in English

See phlegmatize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: phlegmatizes [present, singular, third-person], phlegmatizing [participle, present], phlegmatized [participle, past], phlegmatized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} phlegmatize (third-person singular simple present phlegmatizes, present participle phlegmatizing, simple past and past participle phlegmatized)
  1. To render an explosive less sensitive to causes of explosion by adding phlegmatizers. Derived forms: phlegmatization Translations (add phlegmatizers to an explosive): flemmatizzare (Italian)

Inflected forms

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