denature
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- denaturant derivation
Sense 2 verb
modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- denaturant derivation
Sense 3 verb
make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes
Types & categories
- change hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | denaturant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | denaturant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |