verb
- to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from something, especially soil or water
Usage: scientific; environmental science
Examples
- Certain bacteria can denitrify soil by converting nitrates back to nitrogen gas.
- The wetland system helps denitrify the contaminated groundwater.
- Farmers use specific crops to denitrify fields that have excess nitrogen.
- The treatment plant uses biological processes to denitrify wastewater.
- Microorganisms denitrify the water naturally in oxygen-poor environments.
- Scientists are studying how to denitrify agricultural runoff more effectively.