HYDROLIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrolize mean? 

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

1. make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROLIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hydrolize    ... he / she / it hydrolizes   
Past simple: hydrolized   
Past participle: hydrolized   
-ing form: hydrolizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hydrolise; hydrolize

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

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Cause:

hydrolyse; hydrolyze (undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hydrolize"):

saccharify (convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

hydrolysis (a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water)

 Context examples 

Moexipril hydrochloride is hydrolized into its active form moexiprilat, which competitively inhibits ACE, thereby blocking the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II.

(Moexipril Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)