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autocatalyse

autocatalyse is the alternative spelling of autocatalyze.

Meaning of autocatalyze

Verb

autocatalyze (third-person singular simple present autocatalyzes, present participle autocatalyzing, simple past and past participle autocatalyzed)

  1. To cause or to undergo autocatalysis.

Forms of autocatalyse

third-person singular presentautocatalyses
present participleautocatalysing
past participleautocatalysed
pastautocatalysed

Origin of autocatalyse

From auto- + catalyse.

Questions about autocatalyse

What is autocatalyse the alternative spelling of?
Autocatalyse is the alternative spelling of autocatalyze.

Words near autocatalyse in the dictionary

  1. autocarpous
  2. autocarpy
  3. autocars
  4. autocastration
  5. autocastrations
  6. autocatalyse
  7. autocatalysed
  8. autocatalyses
  9. autocatalysis
  10. autocatalyst
  11. autocatalysts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autocatalyse (page history and authors); autocatalyze (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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