"katabolic" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more katabolic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most katabolic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "katabolic (comparative more katabolic, superlative most katabolic)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "catabolic"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, William I. Thomas, Sex and Society:",
          "text": "Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Earl Barnes, Woman in Modern Society:",
          "text": "Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of catabolic"
      ],
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          "catabolic",
          "catabolic#English"
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  "word": "katabolic"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more katabolic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most katabolic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "katabolic (comparative more katabolic, superlative most katabolic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "catabolic"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1907, William I. Thomas, Sex and Society:",
          "text": "Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Earl Barnes, Woman in Modern Society:",
          "text": "Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of catabolic"
      ],
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          "catabolic",
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  "word": "katabolic"
}