"melanize" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "melanin",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "melanin + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "melanin + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "melanize (third-person singular simple present melanizes, present participle melanizing, simple past and past participle melanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "hypermelanize"
        },
        {
          "word": "hypomelanize"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 May 21, Jules A. Hoffmann et al., “Phylogenetic Perspectives in Innate Immunity”, in Science, volume 284, number 5418, →DOI, pages 1313–1318",
          "text": "At the extreme, the mosquito does not permit survival and transmission of the parasite: in genetically selected refractory mosquito strains, the parasites may be lysed as they traverse the midgut, or may be encapsulated and melanized at the early oocyst stage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in."
      ],
      "id": "en-melanize-en-verb-FA-Mj~4g",
      "links": [
        [
          "melanin",
          "melanin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "melanise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "melanize"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hypermelanize"
    },
    {
      "word": "hypomelanize"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "melanin",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "melanin + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "melanin + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "melanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "melanize (third-person singular simple present melanizes, present participle melanizing, simple past and past participle melanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 May 21, Jules A. Hoffmann et al., “Phylogenetic Perspectives in Innate Immunity”, in Science, volume 284, number 5418, →DOI, pages 1313–1318",
          "text": "At the extreme, the mosquito does not permit survival and transmission of the parasite: in genetically selected refractory mosquito strains, the parasites may be lysed as they traverse the midgut, or may be encapsulated and melanized at the early oocyst stage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "melanin",
          "melanin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "melanise"
    }
  ],
  "word": "melanize"
}