denatured
Speech parts
1. denatured - Adjective
2. denatured - Verb
3. denatured - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
changed in nature or natural quality
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Phrases with the word
Examples
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
denatured alcohol
Along with asking companies to add denatured alcohol to their products, the FDA is also warning against making “false promises,” including the use of unverified claims in advertising.
Environmental Science and TEchnology. vlo. 36, no. 20 (October) p. 4382–8 The enzymes of these microbes are denatured (changed in shape so they no longer function) by the acid.
DNA is repeatedly denatured at a high temperature to separate the double strand, then cooled to allow annealing of primers and the extension of nucleotide sequences through the microsatellite.