Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

sterilizemore about sterilize

sterilize


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sterilize  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sterilize 
  v  1:  make  free  from  bacteria 
  2:  make  infertile;  of  both  males  and  females  [syn:  {desex},  {unsex}, 
  {desexualize},  {fix}] 




more about sterilize