MEANING
To process or chemically transform a substance through metabolism.
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Words that belong together
- metabolize a drug
- metabolize nutrients
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The organism metabolized the compound into detectable products.
The report asked how the tissue metabolized the drug.
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Word forms
- Base
- metabolize
- Past tense
- metabolized
- Past participle
- metabolized
- Present participle
- metabolizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- metabolize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are metabolizing
- Present perfect
- have/has metabolized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been metabolizing
- Past
- metabolized
- Past continuous
- was/were metabolizing
- Past perfect
- had metabolized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been metabolizing
- Future
- will metabolize
- Future continuous
- will be metabolizing
- Future perfect
- will have metabolized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been metabolizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: metabolize; metabolizes; metabolized; metabolized; metabolizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: metabolizes.
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