metabolize, metabolise
(verb) produce by metabolism
Source: WordNet® 3.1
metabolize (third-person singular simple present metabolizes, present participle metabolizing, simple past and past participle metabolized)
(biology, intransitive) To undergo metabolism.
(biology, transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism.
(biology, transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.
(by extension, transitive) To absorb and process as if by metabolism.
Source: Wiktionary
Me*tab"o*lize, v. t. & i. (Physiol.)
Definition: To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
