transitive verb. To make free from live bacteria or other microorganisms.

transitive verb. To eliminate the ability of a person or animal to produce offspring, as by altering or removing the reproductive organs.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To make incapable of bearing fruit or germinating.

transitive verb. To render (land) unfruitful.

transitive verb. To place (gold) in safekeeping so as not to affect the supply of money or credit.

transitive verb. To make inoffensive or innocuous.

To render sterile or unproductive in any way; specifically, in bacteriology, to render free from living germs, as by heating or otherwise. Also spelled sterilise.

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

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

transitive verb. To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by bacteria or other organisms. A common method of sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.

transitive verb. To destroy all spores or germs on (a surface) by wetting with an antiseptic liquid, such as an alcoholic solution.

verb. To deprive a male or female the ability to procreate.

verb. To make unable to produce. To make unprofitable.

verb. To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores that would be on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.

verb. make free from bacteria

verb. make infertile

"LUI: General Grange, the word sterilize has been used in the process as they go through the southern parts of Lebanon."

birth control  castrate  castrato  eunuch  procreate  

sterile  sterilization  

sterilized  sterilizing  

paralyze  

alter  antisepticize  asepticize  aseptify  autoclave  

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