to sterilize
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4.1
- verb
- /ˈstɛrɪlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
esterilizar
- Before performing surgery, doctors always make sure to sterilize their instruments to prevent infection.
- sterilize water
- sterilized needles
- sterilized bottles
Yes, we get that UV causes skin cancer, but there are UV chambers in hospitals that sterilize surgical equipment.
- Yes, we get that UV causes skin cancer, but there are UV chambers in hospitals that sterilize surgical equipment.
- They've been used once and then they sterilize them and throw them out because they're single use.
- And antibiotics, sterilizing creams, you know, keeping people away from dirt.
- It's, it's not are sanitizing the bad elements that men are struggling from, It's sterilizing them altogether.
- That's why like pasteurization, that's not about sterilizing milk cooking, it's not about sterilizing the meat.
- So if you have the drug and you keep it around longer and it's four times more potent, the mouse model shows that it is better at sterilizing and curing animals.
- The problem that we have is the over utilisation of sterilising techniques.
Examples
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Yes, we get that UV causes skin cancer, but there are UV chambers in hospitals that sterilize surgical equipment.
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I sterilized it and stopped the bleeding.
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I need to sterilize my hands.
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Well, then get somebody to wash and sterilize the used ones.
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So again, clean cutting instrument, make sure you sterilize it if possible and go ahead and just make that cut.
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I'll, I'll get a professional cleaning crew and I'll come through and sterilize that home for you.
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Why don't you let me sterilize it?
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Now this knife, does it have to be sterilized or is it good?
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All equipment and utensils were sterilized at the end of each day.
Academic text (1996) -
The company has developed the SAS-1 steam sterilization system, which sterilizes and shreds the waste in one step.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
18
3.7
To clean a surface, wound, or tool with chemicals to kill germs
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3.7
Make something clean and free from bacteria
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7.0
To remove harmful substances from a place or thing to make it safe
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9.5
To clean a wound or skin with something that kills germs to stop infection
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8.8
To make something free of germs using hot steam under pressure in a machine
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8.4
To remove dangerous substances from people, equipment, or areas
To make something clean and free from germs
Remove germs from something by cleaning or using a disinfectant
To make a place or water clean and safe for people's health
Antonyms
How Sterile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sterilize comes from the Latin root sterilis, which means 'barren' or 'not able to produce life'. So when you sterilize tools or bottles you make them 'unable to produce' any tiny living things like germs, keeping things clean and safe.