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DECARBOXYLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decarboxylate ... he / she / it decarboxylates
Past simple: decarboxylated
Past participle: decarboxylated
-ing form: decarboxylating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "decarboxylate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Verb group:
decarboxylate (lose a carboxyl group)
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
Derivation:
decarboxylation (the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lose a carboxyl group
Example:
the compound decarboxylated
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "decarboxylate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
decarboxylate (remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound))
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 frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
decarboxylation (the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen))
