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mutated

/myoo-teyt/US // ˈmyu teɪt //UK // (mjuːˈteɪt) //

变异的,突变的,变种的,变种

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

    • : to change; alter.
    • : Biology. to cause to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: The disease mutates the retina’s rod cells, and they slowly stop working.
    • : Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

    • : to undergo change: It was a gamble to mutate from hard rock frontman to big band crooner, but he went seriously retro and won that bet in a huge way.
    • : Biology. to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: Drug-resistant cells mutate more quickly and could migrate into surrounding tissue.

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Examples

  • However, it’s important to understand that viruses mutate constantly.

  • The infections appear to be caused by a mutated version of the virus that’s made the jump to humans from the diminutive, furry mink.

  • As they mutated across borders, the protests triggered activism and debates on police violence, racial profiling, the detention of asylum seekers and the removal of monuments.

  • While the first and second targets were unique to the new virus spreading in China, the third would identify a broader family of coronaviruses, useful if the virus circulating in China mutated as it infected Americans.

  • Sure, its effectiveness varies wildly from year to year given that the flu virus mutates.

  • The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.

  • Instead, at this pace Smith brings the reader right around to the conflicts of Soviet old, but mutated thanks to added plutocracy.

  • These are single genes that, when mutated, greatly increase your risk for developing a specific disease.

  • The Internet basically exploded and then caved in on itself and then mutated into an alien cyborg in response.

  • Police now acknowledge that the red-light district has mutated into a global hub for human trafficking and money laundering.

  • Yet this was no mutated cell or virus from Earth; it was a new disease, completely different from all others.

  • It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.

  • More, it was free from fear for the first time since the mutated seeds had blown over the saltband.

  • Most monosyllables have umlaut in the comparative and superlative either exclusively or have mutated beside unmutated forms.

  • Those having a mutated vowel in the present have the corresponding unmutated vowel in the preterite.