OXIDIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxidize mean? 

• OXIDIZE (verb)
  The verb OXIDIZE has 2 senses:

1. enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide

2. add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

  Familiarity information: OXIDIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXIDIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they oxidize    ... he / she / it oxidizes   
Past simple: oxidized   
Past participle: oxidized   
-ing form: oxidizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

oxidate; oxidise; oxidize

Context example:

This metal oxidizes easily

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

oxidate; oxidise; oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)

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

rust (become coated with oxide)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

oxidization (the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

oxidate; oxidise; oxidize

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

oxidate; oxidise; oxidize (enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide)

rust (become coated with oxide)

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)

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

catabolise; catabolize (subject to catabolism)

breathe (reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked)

Sentence frames:

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

Antonym:

deoxidize (to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons)

Derivation:

oxidant (a substance that oxidizes another substance)

oxide (any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical)

oxidization (the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction)

oxidizer (a substance that oxidizes another substance)

 Context examples 

First, 3-phosphoglycerate is oxidized and then transaminated to produce 3-phosphoserine.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A two-stage process in which molecules are oxidized to produce energy.

(Cell respiration, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the hydrolysis of oxidized nucleotides.

(NUDT1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

To cause oxidation (a chemical reaction that takes place when a substance comes into contact with oxygen or another oxidizing substance).

(Oxidize, NCI Dictionary)

In each cycle, a fatty acid is progressively shortened by two carbons as it is oxidized and its energy captured by the reduced energy carriers NADH and FADH2.

(Beta-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

While Mars' famous red iron oxides require only a mildly oxidizing environment to form, manganese oxides require a strongly oxidizing environment, more so than previously known for Mars.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

Cytochrome P450 2D5 is a rat liver ER membrane-bound heme-thiolate monooxygenase, involved in an NADPH-dependent electron transport pathway that oxidizes various compounds, including steroids, fatty acids, and xenobiotics.

(Cytochrome P450 2D5, NCI Thesaurus)

When alpha-subunits are in excess they form precipitates with oxidized heme that damage red blood cells.

(Hemoglobin Chaperone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Once there, the lipids in LDL are chemically modified and oxidized.

(LDL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A chemical reaction that takes place when a substance comes into contact with oxygen or another oxidizing substance.

(Oxidation, NCI Dictionary)