单词 | sterilise |
释义 | sterilise (once / 15153 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY sterilise: sterilisation, sterilised, steriliser, sterilises, sterilising+/sterile: sterileness, sterilise, sterility, sterilize/sterilised: unsterilised/steriliser: sterilisers/sterility: sterilities/sterilization: sterilizations/sterilize: sterilization, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing/sterilized: unsterilized/sterilizer: sterilizers USAGE EXAMPLESIn September this year, the city “sterilised” the square, prohibiting street hawkers and performers, but allowing bicycle rentals, statue performers and street painters to stay. The Guardian(Nov 22, 2016) Scientists breed large numbers of blowflies, blast them with radiation to sterilise them and then release them into the wild. BBC(Nov 03, 2016) In India, four million women are sterilised every year. BBC(Oct 19, 2016) 1 v make free from bacteria 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper sterilize autoclave subject to the action of an autoclave disinfect destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing v make infertile Syn|Hypo|Hyper desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex alter, castrate, neuter, spay remove the ovaries of castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculateremove the testicles of a male animal vasectomise, vasectomizeremove the vas deferens defeminise, defeminizeremove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) caponise, caponizeconvert a cock into a capon cut, geldcut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) operate, operate on perform surgery on |
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