HYDROLISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrolise mean? 

• HYDROLISE (verb)
  The verb HYDROLISE has 1 sense:

1. make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

  Familiarity information: HYDROLISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROLISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hydrolise    ... he / she / it hydrolises   
Past simple: hydrolised   
Past participle: hydrolised   
-ing form: hydrolising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hydrolise; hydrolize

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

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Cause:

hydrolyse; hydrolyze (undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hydrolise"):

saccharify (convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

hydrolysis (a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water)