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hepatise

hepatise is the alternative form of hepatize.

Meaning of hepatize

Verb

hepatize (third-person singular simple present hepatizes, present participle hepatizing, simple past and past participle hepatized)

  1. (transitive) To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called hepatic gas).
    • On the right […] were two wells of hepatized water.1806, Sir John Barrow, Travels into The Interior of Southern Africa
  2. (transitive) To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
  3. (transitive) To convert into a substance resembling liver.

Forms of hepatise

third-person singular presenthepatises
present participlehepatising
past participlehepatised
pasthepatised

Questions about hepatise

What is hepatise the alternative form of?
Hepatise is the alternative form of hepatize.

Words near hepatise in the dictionary

  1. hepaticopulmonary
  2. hepatics
  3. hepatin
  4. hepatisation
  5. hepatisations
  6. hepatise
  7. hepatised
  8. hepatises
  9. hepatising
  10. hepatism
  11. hepatite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hepatise (page history and authors); hepatize (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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