Built up and destroyed protoplasm

Usage examples of metabolized.

That would be metabolized when they awoke, giving them a burst of energy.

A tiny percentage of codeine gets metabolized into good old C17-morphine, affording an agonizing hint of what real relief from The Bird might feel like.

Morphine is also a metabolite of codeine, and when codeine is metabolized in the blood we get very low levels of morphine.

So he gets off at the El Monte exit and heads into the business district of Los Altos, a pretty typical mid-twentieth-century American downtown gradually being metabolized by franchises.

But then, once inside the active nerve cells it could not be metabolized like glucose, and piled up.

Not only his stomach but his new storage organ should be full of glucose and other readily metabolized substances.

The fat is metabolized and the sweat glands enlarge and begin working overtime as the body prepares for two months of hard work, heat and little sleep.