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单词 sterilize
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sterilize
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When you sterilize something, you make it completely clean and free from any contaminant. It's important to sterilize tools, hands, and furniture in hospitals so germs don't get spread between patients.
People who make their own jam and pickles need to sterilize the jars first, and when you feed a tiny baby it's important to sterilize the bottles. Whenever you need to make sure something is as clean as possible, you should sterilize it. The earliest meaning of sterilize is still in use, too: to "make infertile," or to make it impossible for an organism to reproduce or have a baby.
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sterilize: sterilization, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing+/sterile: sterileness, sterilise, sterility, sterilize/sterilise: sterilisation, sterilised, steriliser, sterilises, sterilising/sterilised: unsterilised/steriliser: sterilisers/sterility: sterilities/sterilization: sterilizations/sterilized: unsterilized/sterilizer: sterilizers
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But the delicate devices can’t be sterilized like a scalpel because intense heat would destroy crucial components.
Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017)
There is only one machine to sterilize surgical instruments in the entire hospital, and it does not work properly.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
Liberals joined his efforts in recent years to compensate Virginians who were forcibly sterilized between 1924 and 1979 under a state eugenics program.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
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v make free from bacteria
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sterilise
autoclave
subject to the action of an autoclave
disinfect
destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing
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v make infertile
in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
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desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex
alter, castrate, neuter, spay
remove the ovaries of
castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate
remove the testicles of a male animal
vasectomise, vasectomize
remove the vas deferens
defeminise, defeminize
remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
caponise, caponize
convert a cock into a capon
cut, geld
cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
operate, operate on
perform surgery on
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