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CATALYSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

Synonyms:

catalyse; catalyze

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

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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 Context examples: 

Catalyses DNA-template-directed extension of the 3'- end of a DNA strand by one nucleotide at a time.

(DNA-directed DNA Polymerase, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers are hopeful that the study will help catalyse scale-up of automated chlorination technologies, which could contribute to global progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 for universal access to safe, affordable drinking water.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Once there, they catalyse the in situ synthesis of an anticancer compound (panobinostat, an anticancer drug approved in 2015).

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)