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单词 mutating
释义

mutate

verb

mu·​tate ˈmyü-ˌtāt How to pronounce mutate (audio) myü-ˈtāt How to pronounce mutate (audio)
mutated; mutating

intransitive verb

: to undergo mutation

transitive verb

: to cause to undergo mutation
mutative
ˈmyü-ˌtā-tiv How to pronounce mutate (audio) -tə-tiv How to pronounce mutate (audio)
adjective

Synonyms

  • change
  • fluctuate
  • shift
  • snap
  • vary
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Example Sentences

a disease that mutates genes in humans a group of mutated genes Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love. opera singers mutating into pop stars
Recent Examples on the Web But, if they're given in areas with poor hygiene, improper sanitation, and low vaccination rates, the vaccine virus can spread, mutate, and regain the ability to cause disease and paralysis. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022 Despite these developments an Omicron specific booster is yet to be approved anywhere and there are concerns that vaccine makers may always be left playing catch-up against the coronavirus which continues to spread and potentially mutate further. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 Scientists argue that, with this research, they can be prepared to handle it if one day the virus were to mutate naturally. Benjamin Hall, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2022 The only way for these viral proteins to escape Avs detection would be to mutate into an unrecognizable shape. Annie Melchor, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022 The comparison with flu vaccines isn’t sound, Dr. Offit said, because flu viruses mutate so rapidly that shots from one year don’t offer protection for the next, while currently available Covid-19 shots continue to keep people out of the hospital. Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022 And like humans, animals continue to shape the pandemic, as new variants and subvariants mutate in hosts with skin, fur, and feathers before attempting to launch into the broader population. Erin Prater, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022 RBDs are often evolutionarily conserved among different sarbecoviruses, meaning that although some regions of the binding site may mutate as new variants emerge, others stay the same. Wired, 28 July 2022 On average, poxviruses—a family that includes orthopoxviruses such as monkeypox and smallpox—tend to mutate once per year, wrote biophysicist Richard Neher of the University of Basel in Switzerland on Twitter. Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 20 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin mutatus, past participle of mutare

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Kids Definition

mutate

verb

mu·​tate ˈmyü-ˌtāt How to pronounce mutate (audio)
mutated; mutating
: to undergo genetic mutation

Medical Definition

mutate

verb

mu·​tate ˈmyü-ˌtāt How to pronounce mutate (audio) myü-ˈ How to pronounce mutate (audio)
mutated; mutating

intransitive verb

: to undergo mutation

transitive verb

: to cause to undergo mutation

mutating

verb

present participle of mutate
as in changing
to pass from one form, state, or level to another colored lights that slowly mutate from green to blue and so on across the color spectrum

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • changing
  • shifting
  • varying
  • fluctuating
  • morphing
  • snapping
  • metamorphosing
  • improving
  • transmuting
  • deteriorating
  • worsening
  • bettering
  • wavering
  • vacillating
  • turning around
  • teetering
  • seesawing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • stabilizing
  • plateauing
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