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pyrolyze

pyrolyze is the US spelling of pyrolyse.

Meaning of pyrolyse

Verb

pyrolyse (third-person singular simple present pyrolyses, present participle pyrolysing, simple past and past participle pyrolysed)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo pyrolysis.
  2. (transitive) To decompose or transform a substance by subjecting it to heat.

Forms of pyrolyze

third-person singular presentpyrolyzes
present participlepyrolyzing
past participlepyrolyzed
pastpyrolyzed

Words formed from pyrolyze

Questions about pyrolyze

What is pyrolyze the US spelling of?
Pyrolyze is the US spelling of pyrolyse.

Words near pyrolyze in the dictionary

  1. pyrolytic
  2. pyrolytically
  3. pyrolyzable
  4. pyrolyzate
  5. pyrolyzates
  6. pyrolyze
  7. pyrolyzed
  8. pyrolyzer
  9. pyrolyzers
  10. pyrolyzes
  11. pyrolyzing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pyrolyze (page history and authors); pyrolyse (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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