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hydrolyse

hydrolyse is the alternative spelling of hydrolyze.

Meaning of hydrolyze

Verb

hydrolyze (third-person singular simple present hydrolyzes, present participle hydrolyzing, simple past and past participle hydrolyzed)

  1. (US, transitive) To subject to hydrolysis.
  2. (US, intransitive) To undergo hydrolysis.

Forms of hydrolyse

third-person singular presenthydrolyses
present participlehydrolysing
past participlehydrolysed
pasthydrolysed

Words formed from hydrolyse

Questions about hydrolyse

What is hydrolyse the alternative spelling of?
Hydrolyse is the alternative spelling of hydrolyze.

Words near hydrolyse in the dictionary

  1. hydrolysable
  2. hydrolysate
  3. hydrolysates
  4. hydrolysation
  5. hydrolysations
  6. hydrolyse
  7. hydrolysed
  8. hydrolyser
  9. hydrolysers
  10. hydrolyses
  11. hydrolysing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrolyse (page history and authors); hydrolyze (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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