synthesize
verb (used with object)
to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze).
synthesized
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past participleof synthesize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof synthesize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
synthesizeverb (used with object)to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze).
Example Sentences
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Still, the cumbia villera of her childhood — a heavily synthesized subgenre born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the late 1990s — runs through everything she makes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
This album is a lot more synthesized than your previous work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sil synthesized the predicted genes and used cells to produce the reconstructed ancient proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Those viruses are much larger and more complex than the ones synthesized in the experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Thus, the essential trick of gene replication could come from the requirement that each base in the newly synthesized chain always hydrogen-bonds to an identical base.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
