Associations to the word «Metabolize»

Wiktionary

METABOLIZE, verb. (intransitive) To undergo metabolism.
METABOLIZE, verb. (transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism.
METABOLIZE, verb. (transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.

Dictionary definition

METABOLIZE, verb. Produce by metabolism.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky