metabolize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To undergo metabolism. intransitive
  2. To cause a substance to undergo metabolism. transitive
    — Among the many types of juice, grapefruit stands out from the pack because it changes the way some people absorb and metabolize different drugs.
  3. To produce a substance using metabolism. transitive
  4. To absorb and process as if by metabolism. broadly,transitive
    — We believe this to be the true way to teach zoölogy, for we doubt the value to a man of a mass of indefinite ill-digested text-book information. Occasionally an omnivore can take in every thin, and digest and so metabolize it as to organize it into healthy mental tissue. They are, however, the few.

词形变化

metabolizes present,singular,third-person metabolizing participle,present metabolized participle,past metabolized past metabolise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cometabolize metabolizability metabolizable metabolizer mismetabolize nonmetabolized nonmetabolizing remetabolize unmetabolized
相关词
metabolic catabolize

词源

From Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ, “change, mutation”) + -ize.
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