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mutate

/mjuːˈteɪt/US/ˈmju.teɪt/

mutate verb: to undergo mutation.

Verb

mutate (third-person singular simple present mutates, present participle mutating, simple past and past participle mutated)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo mutation.
    • The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.
  2. (transitive) To cause mutation.

mutate meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog and Thai

mutate in Tamil

உரு மாறு, திரி, மாற்று

mutate in Malayalam

metamorphose, change, evolve
പ്രകാരാന്തരീകരണം സംഭവിപ്പിക്കുക, മാറ്റം വരുത്തുക, പരിവർത്തനം വരുത്തുക, രൂപാന്തരപ്രാപ്തി വരുത്തുക, ജനിതകമാറ്റം വരുത്തുക, ജനിതകഘടനയിൽ മാറ്റം വരുത്തുക

mutate in Tagalog

to undergo mutation
mag-ibanyuhay

mutate in Thai

to undergo mutation
กลายพันธุ์ glaai-pan, ผ่าเหล่า pàa-lào
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mutate in Vietnamese
đột biến

Examples of mutate in a sentence

  • Mutated contractions often form diminutive and pejorative terms, such as "Newfie" and "fundie".
  • The mutating process that cells undergo can lead to cancer.
  • The begin() member of std::string returns a mutating iterator.

All 23 example sentences with mutate

Forms of mutate

third-person singular presentmutates
present participlemutating
past participlemutated
pastmutated

Past tense of mutate: mutated

Origin of mutate

First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.

Words formed from mutate

Words that rhyme with mutate

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Questions about mutate

What does mutate mean?
Mutate means to undergo mutation.
What is mutate in Tamil?
Mutate in Tamil is உரு மாறு, திரி, மாற்று. See Mutate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mutate?
Mutate is a verb.
How do you pronounce mutate?
Mutate is pronounced /mjuːˈteɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of mutate?
The past tense of mutate is mutated.

Words near mutate in the dictionary

  1. mutat.
  2. mutat. mutand.
  3. mutat. mutandis
  4. mutatability
  5. mutatable
  6. mutate
  7. mutated
  8. mutated contraction
  9. mutated contractions
  10. mutated cross-site scripting
  11. mutates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mutate (page history and authors); mutate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mutate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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