DECARBOXYLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decarboxylate mean? 

• DECARBOXYLATE (verb)
  The verb DECARBOXYLATE has 2 senses:

1. lose a carboxyl group

2. remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)

  Familiarity information: DECARBOXYLATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECARBOXYLATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decarboxylate    ... he / she / it decarboxylates   
Past simple: decarboxylated   
Past participle: decarboxylated   
-ing form: decarboxylating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose a carboxyl group

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the compound decarboxylated

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

decarboxylate (remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound))

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:

Something ----s

Derivation:

decarboxylation (the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

decarboxylate (lose a carboxyl group)

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

Derivation:

decarboxylation (the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen))

 Context examples 

Amino-propyl groups from decarboxylated adoMet are progressively newed to putrescine to produce first spermidine and then spermine.

(Biosynthesis of Spermidine and Spermine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, does not produce H2S in TSI agar, grows in media containing KCN, produces acid from adonitol and D-arabitol and does not decarboxylate lysine.

(Citrobacter koseri, NCI Thesaurus)

When in the brain, levodopa is decarboxylated to dopamine and stimulates the dopaminergic receptors, thereby compensating for the depleted supply of endogenous dopamine seen in Parkinson's disease.

(Levodopa, NCI Thesaurus)