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Sterilize

Sterilize Meaning & Definition
Sterilize Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sterilize?

[v] make infertile; of both males and females
[v] make free from bacteria

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sterilize: desex | desexualise | desexualize | fix | sterilise | unsex

Related Terms | Find terms related to Sterilize:

See Also | alter | autoclave | castrate | demasculinise | demasculinize | disinfect | emasculate | neuter | operate | operate on | spay | vasectomise | vasectomize

Sterilize In Webster's Dictionary

\Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sterilized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sterilizing}.] [Cf. F. st['e]riliser.] 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.

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