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CARBOXYLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they carboxylate ... he / she / it carboxylates
Past simple: carboxylated
Past participle: carboxylated
-ing form: carboxylating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "carboxylate" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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