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say it: an-uh-BAH-lik
anabolic is an adjective meaning "of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism". It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism
characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism
“some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anabolic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.