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catalyse

verb
🔊/ˈkætəlaɪz/
🔊/ˈkætəlaɪz/
 (British English)
(North American English catalyze)
(chemistry化学)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they catalyse
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🔊/ˈkætəlaɪz/
he / she / it catalyses
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🔊/ˈkætəlaɪzɪz/
past simple catalysed
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past participle catalysed
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-ing form catalysing
🔊/ˈkætəlaɪzɪŋ/
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  1. catalyse something to make a chemical reaction happen faster催化Topics Physics and chemistryc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCatalyse/​catalyze is used with these nouns as the object:
    • reaction
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    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from catalysis ‘the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst’, on the pattern of analyse.