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automethylate

automethylate verb: to methylate itself.

Verb

automethylate (third-person singular simple present automethylates, present participle automethylating, simple past and past participle automethylated)

  1. To methylate itself

Forms of automethylate

third-person singular presentautomethylates
present participleautomethylating
past participleautomethylated
pastautomethylated

Origin of automethylate

From auto- + methylate.

Questions about automethylate

What does automethylate mean?
Automethylate means to methylate itself.
What part of speech is automethylate?
Automethylate is a verb.
What is the past tense of automethylate?
The past tense of automethylate is automethylated.

Words near automethylate in the dictionary

  1. automeronyms
  2. automeronymy
  3. autometallographic
  4. autometallographical
  5. autometallography
  6. automethylate
  7. automethylated
  8. automethylates
  9. automethylating
  10. automethylation
  11. autometric

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