Sterilize Definition

stĕrə-līz
sterilized, sterilizes, sterilizing
verb
sterilized, sterilizes, sterilizing
To make free from live bacteria or other microorganisms.
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To eliminate the ability of a person or animal to produce offspring, as by altering or removing the reproductive organs.
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To make incapable of bearing fruit or germinating.
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To make sterile.
Webster's New World
To render (land) unfruitful.
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Sterilize Sentence Examples

  • A solution of I in 20 is used to sterilize instruments before an operation, and towels or lint to be used for the patient.

  • Make sure you thoroughly wash, sterilize and dry the bottles before use.

  • These organisms live in cockles, oysters and other lamellibranchs and they so affect the gonads of these molluscs as to castrate and sterilize their host.

  • Though Depretis, at the end of his life in 1887, showed signs of repenting of the confusion thus created, he had established a parliamentary system destined largely to sterilize and vitiate the political life of Italy.

  • Meanwhile, sterilize a sharp scalpel in the same way.

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