About The Word Sterilize
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Sterilize
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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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