Denature

Definitions: Denature

Denature

Verb

1. Add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb.

2. Modify (as a native protein) esp. by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished.

3. Make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes.

Note: Denature \De*na"ture\, transitive verb. [De- nature.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Denature

Specialty definitions using "denature": blue goo ♦ to denature. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Le Prince Denature (reference) (more book examples)
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"Denature" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Denature" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expression using "denature": to denature. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "denature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndërroj natyrën, çnatyroj (denaturalize). (various references)

Bulgarian		променям свойствата на, правя негоден за ядене, правя негоден за пиене, денатурирам. (various references)

Chinese		弈质 (denatured). (various references)

Danish		denaturere (to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Dutch		denatureren (to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Farsi		طبیعت یاماهیت چیزی راعوض کردن . (various references)

Finnish		denaturoida (to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

French		dénaturer (denaturalize, to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

German		vergällen (embitter, sour, spoil, to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Greek		κάνω ακατάλληλο προσ βρώση, κάνω ακατάλληλο προσ πόση, αλλοιώνω την φύση. (various references)

Hebrew		לפ�'ל (adulterate, foul, pollute, spoil). (various references)

Hungarian		denaturál (to denature). (various references)

Indonesian		mengubah sifat benda. (various references)

Italian		denaturare (to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		変性 (degenerate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へ�"せい (composition, degenerate, eccentric personality, formation, forming, metamorphosis, organization). (various references)

Pig Latin		enatureday

Portuguese		desnaturar (misrepresent, to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Romanian		denatura (angle, denaturalize, distort, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, pervert, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest). (various references)

Russian		денатурировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		denaturisati. (various references)

Spanish		desnaturalizar (denaturalize, to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Swedish		denaturera (denaturalize, to denaturate, to denature). (various references)

Turkish		doğasını değiştirmek. (various references)

Ukranian		змінювати природні властивості, денатурувати (methylate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "denature": denatured, denatures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Denature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benatura, Damaturu, debature, debnature, denaturat, denaturd, Denotra, Dentanurse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "denature" (pronounced dunā"kher)
4	-n ā" kh er	nature.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: underate, undereat.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: daunter, denture, natured, retuned, tenured, unrated, untread.
	-2 letters: anteed, ardent, derate, earned, endear, endure, entera, enured, nature, neared, neater, neuter, ranted, redate, rented, retune, teared, tender, tenure, tundra, tureen, turned, unread.
	-3 letters: anted, antre, arete, dater, daunt, denar, derat, deter, eared, eaten, eater, enate, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, nuder, ranee, rated, redan.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: adventure, denatured, denatures, numerated, outearned, renatured, sauntered, unaltered, uncreated, undereats, underrate, undertake, unearthed, unrelated, untreated.
	+2 letters: adulterine, adventured, adventurer, adventures, crenulated, enraptured, enumerated, guaranteed, headhunter, laundrette, outlearned, ultradense, uncarpeted, underacted, undereaten, underneath, underrated, underrates, underreact, understate, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertaxed, undertaxes, underwater, unfathered, unparented, unreadiest, unsteadier, unthreaded, untraveled, unwreathed.
	+3 letters: adventurers, adventuress, beardtongue, counterbade, deuteranope, deuterating, deuteration, headhunters, launderette, laundrettes, menstruated, neutralised, neutralized, reeducating, reeducation, rejuvenated, remunerated, thunderhead, traducement, unbracketed, unchartered, undecorated, underactive, undereating, underreacts, understated, understates, undertakers, undertenant, unharvested, unliberated, unregulated, unseparated, untrammeled, untraversed, unweathered.
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