Chiefly U.S. The action or process of making a person (or animal) sterile or sexually impotent, esp. by surgical removal of the testes or…

Surgical or medical treatment of a person to prevent reproduction or reduce sexual urges; sterilization. Cf. asexualization, n. 1. Now disused.

The process of rendering something free of microorganisms by means of ionizing radiation (cf. radappertization, n.). Also: the process of rendering…