metabolize

English

Verb

metabolize (third-person singular simple present metabolizes, present participle metabolizing, simple past and past participle metabolized)

1. (intransitive) To undergo metabolism.
2. (transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism.
3. (transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.

Related terms

• metabolic

Translations

(intransitive) to undergo metabolism

Icelandic: breytast við lífræn efnaskipti

to cause a substance to undergo metabolism

to produce a substance using metabolism

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Icelandic: breyta við lífræn efnaskipti

See also

• catabolize