cocktailing
- noun
- /ˈkɒk.teɪl.ɪŋ/
- NSFW
- During the experiment, he carefully mixed a cocktail of enzymes to observe the resulting chemical interactions.
Examples
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Did you know that the glass of water you drank this morning may have been laced with a toxic cocktail of what's known as forever chemicals?
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And that cocktail that he used was very, very efficient at killing HIV.
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So you give cocktails of of drugs as opposed to single drugs.
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You know, whatever he had was magnified by the drug cocktails that he did.
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In other words, he made himself a cocktail of the Vibrio colorei and drank it.
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They brought a cocktail of three phages, one of which they found on a rotting eggplant from South Africa.
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Like it's just a, a, a really lethal cocktail of neglect, malice and incompetence, like all sort of swirled together.
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In medical trials, researchers often use a cocktail of different drugs to enhance treatment effectiveness.
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The scientist created a cocktail of chemical compounds to test their reaction under various conditions.
Synonyms
Putting different things together so they become one
Putting two or more things together to make one new thing
Mixing different things together until they form an even mixture
Putting different things together to make one thing
Different things joined together to make one thing
A way of combining ingredients before the main cooking or baking step
To give two or more medicines at the same time
Antonyms
How Dangerous
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Morphology
Etymology
Cocktailing comes from cocktail, which means a 'mixture'. A helpful way to remember the medical or drug sense is to think of 'mixing' several substances together, so cocktailing means combining drugs or chemicals to produce a combined effect.