Sterilize
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[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- v.使不育, 杀菌
- ［英］ v.使不育, 杀菌 ( to make sterile)
- ［类］ sedative : pacify / antiseptic : sterilize ( 镇静剂使人平静 / 杀菌剂杀菌) 反义词: contaminate ( 污染)
- ［例］ sterilize the surgical instruments
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
transitive verb (-ized; -izing)
- Date: 1695
- to make sterile: as
- a. to cause (land) to become unfruitful
- b.
- (1) to deprive of the power of reproducing <surgically sterilize cats and dogs>
- (2) to make incapable of germination
- c. to make powerless or useless usually by restraining from a normal function, relation, or participation
- d. to free from living microorganisms
- ? sterilization noun
- ? sterilizer noun
