anabolic
adjective
involving or stimulating the building of complex substances from simpler ones as part of the process of metabolism in living organisms (opposed to catabolic).
anabolically
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a word derived from
anabolic.
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Our anabolically enhanced, leather-gutted Quadrifoglio model costs another $33,500, a jump of 72%, putting it in the same ballpark as heavy-hitters such the Maserati Levante S and Porsche Macan Turbo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2018
