Definition of "metabolizing" [metabolizing]

• Present participle of metabolize. (verb)
• That serves to metabolize a specific class of compound (adjective)

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• "And once they make contact with the explosive material, they too will begin metabolizing and degrading it."
• "And that you may inherit different profiles of the so-called metabolizing genes differently in women than in men."
• "Bion had an epistemophilic theory of the mind, in that he thought that our minds not only intrinsically seek truth, but grow as a result of "metabolizing" it."