"autolyze" meaning in English

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        "2": "auto",
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      "expansion": "auto- + lyze",
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  "etymology_text": "From auto- + lyze.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "autolyzes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "orig": "en:Biology",
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      "glosses": [
        "To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
        [
          "enzyme",
          "enzyme"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, said of a cell) To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes."
      ],
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        "said of a cell"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "autolysis"
        }
      ],
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          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "autolyse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "autolizować"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "autolyze"
}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From auto- + lyze.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "autolyzes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autolyzed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "autolysis"
    }
  ],
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      "glosses": [
        "To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes."
      ],
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        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "enzyme",
          "enzyme"
        ]
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        "(biology, said of a cell) To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes."
      ],
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      ],
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      "word": "autolyse"
    }
  ],
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      "word": "autolizować"
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  "word": "autolyze"
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