Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

lyse

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. lyse (verb)
  2. -lyse

lyse

verb \ˈlīs, ˈlīz\
lysedlys·ing

Definition of LYSE

transitive verb
: to cause to undergo lysis
intransitive verb
: to undergo lysis

Origin of LYSE

back-formation from New Latin lysis
First Known Use: 1924

Rhymes with LYSE

dice, gneiss, ice, nice, pice, price, rice, slice, spice, splice, syce, thrice, trice, twice, vice, vise

Learn More About LYSE

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: -lyse
Previous Word in the Dictionary: lysate
All Words Near: lyse

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up lyse? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).