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HYDROLIZE

Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrolize mean?

• HYDROLIZE (verb)
The verb HYDROLIZE has 1 sense:

1. make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

Familiarity information: HYDROLIZE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HYDROLIZE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hydrolise; hydrolize

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

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HYDROLIZE: related words searches

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