Definitions for sterilize

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sterilize ster·i·lize

Spelling: [ster-uh-lahyz]

IPA: /ˈstɛr əˌlaɪz/

Sterilize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in sterilize (eeiilrstz).

Definitions for sterilize

verb (used with object)

1. to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
2. to destroy the ability of (a person or animal) to reproduce by removing the sex organs or inhibiting their functions.
3. to make (land) barren or unproductive.
4. Informal. to delete or remove anything comprising or damaging from:
5. Informal. to isolate or completely protect from unwanted, unauthorized, or unwholesome activities, attitudes, influences, etc.:

Origin of sterilize

First recorded in 1685-95; sterile + -ize

Examples for sterilize

It is curious how the sea seems to sterilize the emotions in some natures.

The mother should sterilize the wound as thoroughly as possible.

sterilize: to destroy all the germs or spores in or on anything.

Some ligations and short resections have failed to sterilize.

In the field it is sometimes necessary to sterilize or filter water.

Then sterilize your cans, and you won't have a bit of trouble.

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.

The freezing of water in pond and river does not purify or sterilize it.

And so we have this day to hunt out all his lairs and sterilize them.

Already all of his lairs but one be sterilize as for him; and before the sunset this shall be so.