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HYDROLIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Synonyms:
hydrolise; hydrolize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
