Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To undergo mutation.

    The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.

    mutieren

    undergo mutation

  2. (transitive)To cause mutation.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. The virus is starting to mutate.

    ruВирус начинает мутировать. — Wayawa

    deDer Virus fängt an zu mutieren. — Zaghawa

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  2. Ziri's genes could mutate even further.

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  3. Ziri began mutating after a few minutes.

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  4. Karl was mutated by the alien substance.

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  5. The pig was a genetically mutated animal.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
to undergo mutation:

Origin

First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming su

First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.

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Forms

mutates, mutating, mutated, mutated
Base formmutate · to mutate
3rd person singularmutates
Present participlemutating
Past simplemutated
Past participlemutated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymutate
he, she, itmutates

Past simpleLesson

all personsmutated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mutated
he, she, ithas mutated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mutate

Word family

14 related words
Relatedmutantmutationmutatis mutandismutative
Deriveddismutatehypermutatemutasemutatablemutatormuteinparamutatepremutatestereomutatetransmutate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mutableB2mutantmutationmute
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