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mismetabolize

mismetabolize verb: to metabolize improperly.

Verb

mismetabolize (third-person singular simple present mismetabolizes, present participle mismetabolizing, simple past and past participle mismetabolized)

  1. To metabolize improperly.
    • They are still relatively blunted, desensitized by mismetabolized residues from a denatured-foods past.1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, page 148
    • Cu and Fe are both potent inducers of highly toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as the hydroxyl radical if mismetabolized.2010 May, Aphrodite Caragounis, Katherine Ann Price, Cynthia P.W. Soon, Gulay Filiz, Colin L.Masters, Qiao-XinLi, Peter J.Crouch, Anthony R.White, “Zinc induces depletion and aggregation of...

Forms of mismetabolize

third-person singular presentmismetabolizes
present participlemismetabolizing
past participlemismetabolized
pastmismetabolized

Origin of mismetabolize

From mis- + metabolize.

Questions about mismetabolize

What does mismetabolize mean?
Mismetabolize means to metabolize improperly.
What part of speech is mismetabolize?
Mismetabolize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mismetabolize?
The past tense of mismetabolize is mismetabolized.

Words near mismetabolize in the dictionary

  1. mismerging
  2. mismessage
  3. mismessages
  4. mismessaging
  5. mismet
  6. mismetabolize
  7. mismetabolized
  8. mismetabolizes
  9. mismetabolizing
  10. mismetallation
  11. mismetallations

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