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Destroy cells
Answer for the clue "Destroy cells ", 4 letters:
lyse
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context biology English) To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. 2 (context biochemistry English) To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, back-formation from lysis .
Usage examples of lyse.
He's an innocent little blood cell lysed by unfair osmotic conditions.
A Terran enzyme in the mud could’ve lysed those pheromones, turned them into one of those compounds.
His overstrained legs and arms were trembling so uncontrollably that he was almost unable to help him self, and he was content to be handled like a half-para lysed invalid.
Damage or “stress” to a host bacterium may result in the transcription of the phage genes, which then replicate new phages, releasing them by lysing or breaking open the host.
Their tissues resisted the lysing enzymes of the predator plants, and anyway after the first itching stab or two the human prey would certainly wake up and go somewhere else.