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semisynthesizing

semisynthesizing is the present participle and gerund of semisynthesize.

Meaning of semisynthesize

Verb

semisynthesize (third-person singular simple present semisynthesizes, present participle semisynthesizing, simple past and past participle semisynthesized)

  1. To synthesize partially, usually by incorporating natural components.
    • The 1,241st compound that they "semisynthesized" in this way looked particularly promising.1977, Harry Filmore Dowling, Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century, page 185

Questions about semisynthesizing

What is semisynthesizing the present participle and gerund of?
Semisynthesizing is the present participle and gerund of semisynthesize.

Words near semisynthesizing in the dictionary

  1. semisyntheses
  2. semisynthesis
  3. semisynthesize
  4. semisynthesized
  5. semisynthesizes
  6. semisynthesizing
  7. semisynthetic
  8. semisynthetically
  9. semisynthetics
  10. semisystematic
  11. semisystematically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semisynthesizing (page history and authors); semisynthesize (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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