English Dictionary

metabolize

IPA（発音記号）

/mɪˈtæbəˌlaɪz/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 広義

(biology, intransitive) To undergo metabolism. / (biology, transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism. / (biology, transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.

日本語の意味

（生物学）自身が代謝の過程を経る / （生物学）物質に代謝を起こさせる / （生物学）代謝を利用して物質を生成する

Certain medications metabolize more quickly in younger patients.

特定の薬は若年の患者ではより速く代謝される。

意味（1）

(biology, intransitive) To undergo metabolism.

意味（2）

(biology, transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism.

Among the many types of juice, grapefruit stands out from the pack because it changes the way some people absorb and metabolize different drugs.

意味（3）

(biology, transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.

意味（4）

(by extension, transitive) To absorb and process as if by metabolism.

We believe this to be the true way to teach zoölogy, for we doubt the value to a man of a mass of indefinite ill-digested text-book information. Occasionally an omnivore can take in every thin, and digest and so metabolize it as to organize it into healthy mental tissue. They are, however, the few.

metabolizes （ present singular third-person ）

metabolizing （ participle present ）

metabolized （ participle past ）

metabolized （ past ）