CATALYSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they catalyse ... he / she / it catalyses

Past simple: catalysed

Past participle: catalysed

-ing form: catalysing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

Synonyms:

catalyse; catalyze

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "catalyse" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

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 frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

Context examples:

Catalyses DNA-template-directed extension of the 3'- end of a DNA strand by one nucleotide at a time.

(DNA-directed DNA Polymerase, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers are hopeful that the study will help catalyse scale-up of automated chlorination technologies, which could contribute to global progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 for universal access to safe, affordable drinking water.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Once there, they catalyse the in situ synthesis of an anticancer compound (panobinostat, an anticancer drug approved in 2015).