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defloxed

defloxed is the simple past and past participle of deflox.

Meaning of deflox

Verb

deflox (third-person singular simple present defloxes, present participle defloxing, simple past and past participle defloxed)

  1. (molecular biology) To remove a DNA sequence from between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"

Questions about defloxed

What is defloxed the simple past and past participle of?
Defloxed is the simple past and past participle of deflox.

Words near defloxed in the dictionary

  1. deflowerings
  2. deflowerment
  3. deflowerments
  4. deflowers
  5. deflox
  6. defloxed
  7. defloxing
  8. defluent
  9. defluff
  10. defluffed
  11. defluffing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defloxed (page history and authors); deflox (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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