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autolyse

autolyse is the alternative spelling of autolyze.

Meaning of autolyze

Verb

autolyze (third-person singular simple present autolyzes, present participle autolyzing, simple past and past participle autolyzed)

  1. (US) To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes.

Forms of autolyse

third-person singular presentautolyses
present participleautolysing
past participleautolysed
pastautolysed

Words formed from autolyse

Questions about autolyse

What is autolyse the alternative spelling of?
Autolyse is the alternative spelling of autolyze.

Words near autolyse in the dictionary

  1. Autolycuses
  2. autolymphocyte
  3. autolymphocytes
  4. autolysate
  5. autolysates
  6. autolyse
  7. autolysed
  8. autolyses
  9. autolysin
  10. autolysing
  11. autolysins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autolyse (page history and authors); autolyze (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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