Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To subject (a substance) to metabolism.
- intransitive verb To perform metabolism.
- intransitive verb To undergo change by metabolism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology, to subject to metabolism; transform by either assimilation or decomposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb (Physiol.) To change by a metabolic process. See
metabolism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
undergo metabolism . - verb transitive To
cause asubstance to undergo metabolism. - verb transitive To
produce a substance using metabolism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb produce by metabolism
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Examples
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If we can't simply get rid of the poison out of one end or the other (yes Mrs. Reidy, I know that's Hardly Dinner Table Conversation), then our liver has to break it down or "metabolize" it into something that's safe for our kidneys and other organs of elimination to process and excrete.
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You chose the biological term 'metabolize' instead of 'catalytic function,' just as you chose "respond to stimuli" instead of "light transduction."
A Minimal Genome 2006
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First of all, I'm suspicious of anyone who uses words like "metabolize" and "synthesize."
Ottawa Sun 2010
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First of all, I'm suspicious of anyone who uses words like "metabolize" and "synthesize."
Ottawa Sun 2010
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For starters living organisms metabolize, they have transcription and translation processes - complete with proof-reading and error correction.
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For starters living organisms metabolize, they have transcription and translation processes - complete with proof-reading and error correction.
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It does a lot of other stuff, like metabolize compounds of cancer and also a whole long list of drugs.
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Genetics determines how an individual woman will metabolize her own estrogen, the estrogen made inside her own body.
Dr. Nalini Chilkov: What Causes Cancer? Genetics & Environment: The Perfect Storm Dr. Nalini Chilkov 2011
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It does a lot of other stuff, like metabolize compounds of cancer and also a whole long list of drugs.
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ID guy: For starters living organisms metabolize, they have transcription and translation processes - complete with proof-reading and error correction.
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