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  • verb Present participle of metabolize.
  • adjective That serves to metabolize a specific class of compound

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Examples

  • And once they make contact with the explosive material, they too will begin metabolizing and degrading it.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • And once they make contact with the explosive material, they too will begin metabolizing and degrading it.

    Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

  • And that you may inherit different profiles of the so-called metabolizing genes differently in women than in men.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2006 2006

  • Bion had an epistemophilic theory of the mind, in that he thought that our minds not only intrinsically seek truth, but grow as a result of "metabolizing" it.

    W.R. Bion Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • He has no loyalty to the truth, nor to actively lead us towards metabolizing difficult issues so we can ourselves see difficult truth.

    Carol Smaldino: George Washington vs. Barack Obama: A Question of Character Carol Smaldino 2011

  • To survive until spring it must become anoxic, metabolizing only a limited store of glycogen rather than fat fat requires oxygen to metabolize in a state of severe metabolic depression.

    The Beating Heart Beneath the Shell Jennie Erin Smith 2011

  • When would it be time to discuss in conferences and out loud that our society is suffering from deficiencies in self-worth and fluency in metabolizing emotion in general -- both of which are part of a foundation of resiliency that can face a real examination of our actions and some of the mistakes we have made?

    Carol Smaldino: When Do We Get to Diagnose Our Own Society? Carol Smaldino 2012

  • Each bottle comes with a pamphlet promising: This all natural dietary supplement detoxes your system by metabolizing protein and eliminating bloat.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • When would it be time to discuss in conferences and out loud that our society is suffering from deficiencies in self-worth and fluency in metabolizing emotion in general -- both of which are part of a foundation of resiliency that can face a real examination of our actions and some of the mistakes we have made?

    Carol Smaldino: When Do We Get to Diagnose Our Own Society? Carol Smaldino 2012

  • We're developing a drug to decrease the muscles' resistance to metabolizing glucose.

    Riva Greenberg: Changing Whole Towns to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes: Itamar Raz Riva Greenberg 2012

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