sterilize
sterilize is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Biol.) (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. (b) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acarpous
- addle
- and
- arid
- barren
- come
- desert
- disable
- effect
- fallow
- fire
- flash
- fruitless
- hang
- impotence
- infecund
- infecundity
- infertile
- infertility
- inoperative
- inutility
- issueless
- make
- masturbation
- nothing
- null
- pan
- sine
- sterile
- sterility
- teemless
- the
- unfertile
- unfruitful
- useless
- void
- waste
- wild
- wilderness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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