catalyse
verb (British English)(North American English catalyze)
(- catalyse something
to make a chemical reaction happen faster Topics Physics and chemistryc2催化 Oxford Collocations DictionaryCatalyse/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.