1. catalyse something to make a chemical reaction happen fasterTopics
   Collocations: Catalyse/catalyze is used with these nouns as the object:

   • reaction
   Word Originlate 19th cent.: from catalysis ‘the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst’, on the pattern of analyse.

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