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lysing

lysing is the present participle and gerund of lyse.

Meaning of lyse

Verb

lyse (third-person singular simple present lyses, present participle lysing, simple past and past participle lysed)

  1. To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.
  2. To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.

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Questions about lysing

What is lysing the present participle and gerund of?
Lysing is the present participle and gerund of lyse.

Words near lysing in the dictionary

  1. lysimeters
  2. lysimetric
  3. lysin
  4. lysine
  5. lysines
  6. lysing
  7. lysinoalanine
  8. lysinoalanines
  9. lysins
  10. lysinuric
  11. lysinylate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lysing (page history and authors); lyse (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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