STERILIZED

sterilized, sterilised

(adjective) made infertile

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

sterilized

simple past tense and past participle of sterilize

Anagrams

• Listerized

Source: Wiktionary


STERILIZE

Ster"il*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. stériliser.]

1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.

2. (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



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