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autolyzes

autolyzes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about autolyzes

What is autolyzes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Autolyzes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of autolyze.

Words near autolyzes in the dictionary

  1. autolyzates
  2. autolyze
  3. autolyzed
  4. autolyzed yeast extract
  5. autolyzed yeast extracts
  6. autolyzes
  7. autolyzing
  8. autom
  9. autom cove
  10. autom coves
  11. autom mort

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autolyzes (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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