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# anabolic

adjective (anabolic)

«anabolic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (science) Anabolic means building up bigger molecules from smaller ones in the body, like building muscle and growing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#m1)
2. Anabolic steroids are drugs that build muscle; using them in sport is cheating and can harm health. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in biology (anabolism, the opposite of catabolism), health and sport news about doping and banned drugs.

### Examples

- Growth is an anabolic process. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x1)
- Anabolic reactions use energy to build new tissue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x2)
- The athlete was banned for taking anabolic steroids. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x3)
- Anabolic steroids can damage the heart and liver. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x4)
- Sleep helps the body's anabolic work of repair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x5)
- Building proteins from amino acids is anabolic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/#x6)

### Note

Science word. Opposite: «catabolic» (breaking down). Anabolic steroids are not the same as steroid medicines like asthma inhalers or creams, which doctors give safely.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «anabolic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anabolic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«anabolic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/anabolic.html) on Mova free.