sterilize

[ster·il·ize]

When you sterilize something, you make it completely clean and free from any contaminant. It's important to sterilize tools, hands, and furniture in hospitals so germs don't get spread between patients.

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To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

Verb
make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized"

Verb
make free from bacteria

v. t.
To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

v. t.
To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

v. t.
To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

Sterilize

Ster"il*ize , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing .] [Cf. F. st'82riliser.] 1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward. 2. (Biol.) (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. (b) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

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Usage Examples

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.