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CATABOLISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does catabolise mean?
• CATABOLISE (verb)
The verb CATABOLISE has 1 sense:
1. subject to catabolism
Familiarity information: CATABOLISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they catabolise ... he / she / it catabolises
Past simple: catabolised
Past participle: catabolised
-ing form: catabolising
... he / she / it catabolises Past simple: catabolised
Past participle: catabolised
-ing form: catabolising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to catabolism
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
catabolise; catabolize
Hypernyms (to "catabolise" is one way to...):
oxidate; oxidise; oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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