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metaboliser

metaboliser is the alternative form of metabolizer.

Meaning of metabolizer

Noun

metabolizer (plural metabolizers)

  1. Any substance that increases the ability of the body to metabolize a specific class of compound (such as fat).
  2. One who metabolizes.
    • We could therefore assert that a person who uses, on average, more than 110 calories per hour would be termed a fast metabolizer and a person who uses less than 90 calories per hour would be a slow metabolizer.2012, Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet, page 244

Forms of metaboliser

pluralmetabolisers

Origin of metaboliser

From metabolise + -er.

Questions about metaboliser

What is metaboliser the alternative form of?
Metaboliser is the alternative form of metabolizer.

Words near metaboliser in the dictionary

  1. metabolisable
  2. metabolisation
  3. metabolisations
  4. metabolise
  5. metabolised
  6. metaboliser
  7. metabolisers
  8. metabolises
  9. metabolising
  10. metabolisis
  11. metabolism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metaboliser (page history and authors); metabolizer (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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