BACTERIZE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bacterize mean?

• BACTERIZE (verb)
The verb BACTERIZE has 1 sense:

1. subject to the action of bacteria

Familiarity information: BACTERIZE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BACTERIZE (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they bacterize

... he / she / it bacterizes

Past simple: bacterized

Past participle: bacterized

-ing form: bacterizing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to the action of bacteria

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bacterise; bacterize

Hypernyms (to "bacterize" is one way to...):

subject (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

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