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autolyzing

autolyzing is the present participle and gerund 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 autolyzing

What is autolyzing the present participle and gerund of?
Autolyzing is the present participle and gerund of autolyze.

Words near autolyzing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autolyzing (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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