denature

This property depends heavily on both the amount of protein in the beer and how these proteins denature.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025

It is thought that acids in the stomach denature the virus, said Michael Imperiale, a microbiologist and immunologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

At an internal body temperature of about 104, 105, something like that, your cell membranes actually begin to denature, like what an egg does when you put it in a frying pan.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023

“We need to take a step back and decide: Are we willing to denature nature for our toys and our various games we play with her?”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

Term for `police' nanobots intended to prevent gray goo, denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice, and the American way, etc.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

Now that most of the paint is gone, spray the chair with denatured alcohol and scrub with more steel wool to clean off any residue.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

To manufacture the sponge, Mohammad Peydayesh, a senior scientist in Mezzenga's Group, and his colleagues denatured whey proteins under acidic conditions and high temperatures, so that they aggregated into protein nanofibrils in a gel.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

They’re punchlines designed to be clipped and denatured of meaning.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The title and Ma’s name are ruffled too, as if the author herself were shrink-wrapping delicious pleasure into a denatured product.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Antonoff, an occasional tabloid presence thanks to his relationships with actresses Lena Dunham and Margaret Qualley, isn’t alone in his flair for slightly denaturing sounds familiar to any music fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

As Ms. Selldorf removes the pergolas, she eliminates the complexity and contradiction Venturi Scott Brown layered into the ensemble, denaturing their eclectic addition.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018

This emotional complacency—a kind of saccharine self-satisfaction at his own sensitivity—is all the more disheartening for its denaturing of the movie’s evident substance, for the banalization of its meditative, nearly collage-like sense of memory.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2017

Denaturation is often reversible because the primary structure is preserved if the denaturing agent is removed, allowing the protein to resume its function.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

He endured the most virulent personal abuse that has ever been poured out on American public men, preferring that to using the power which his position gave him, and denaturing the President into a tyrant.

From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer