to sterilize
- verb
- /ˈstɛrɪlaɪz/
- Specialized
- Women are going into hospital, they come out and they're sterilized.
- sterilize women
- sterilize the individual
And after I was born, the government wanted to sterilize my mom and my grandpa.
- And after I was born, the government wanted to sterilize my mom and my grandpa.
- For decades in the United States, African American women were sterilized without their consent.
- I mean they're, they're, they're castrating and butchering and sterilizing kids.
- We've seen in Afghanistan areas where people say the vaccines is really a Western, you know, effort to try to sterilize our children.
- Some of the women were sterilized but they didn't have one inch of hate towards their so-called enemies.
- They are systematically sterilizing or raping ethnic women as a form of ethnic cleansing.
- Let's help her cut her breasts off and sterilise, be sterilised.
- And I imagine a load of people will give kids, non will stop giving their kids sterilising vaccines now because they've just gone.
- One side is pro castrating little boys and chopping off the breasts of little girls and sterilizing them.
- And I imagine a load of people will give kids non will stop giving their kids sterilizing vaccines now because they've just gone what's happened?
Examples
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They wanted to forcibly sterilize her.
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Before enthusiasm for the project waned in mid-century, over 60,000 individuals were involuntarily sterilized in the United States.
Academic text (2009) -
And after I was born, the government wanted to sterilize my mom and my grandpa.
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For decades in the United States, African American women were sterilized without their consent.
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Her mother wanted her sterilized to avoid that risk and still accommodate her social freedom.
Blog text (15) -
Tens of thousands of people across the United States were sterilized.
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Over 10 years later, women of African descent continued to be disproportionately sterilized according to U.S. estimates.
Academic text (1993) -
Buck v. Bell upheld the ability of the government to involuntarily sterilize individuals with mental disabilities.
Academic text (2017) -
Debra is from Montana, and an IHS physician sterilized her in the spring of 1975.
Academic text (2000) -
To help control the pet population, many shelters work to sterilize cats before they are adopted.
Synonyms
To make an animal unable to have babies
To remove an animal's organs used to make babies so it cannot reproduce
To remove a female animal's ovaries so it cannot have young
To remove the sex organs of a person or animal so they cannot have young
To remove a female animal's ovaries so it cannot have babies
A woman who has surgery to permanently stop having children by closing her fallopian tubes
To stop an animal from having babies by removing or damaging its reproductive organs
To cut or block the tubes that carry sperm so a man cannot father children
Have an operation that closes the tubes to the womb so she cannot get pregnant
To make a person or animal unable to have babies
To remove the ovaries from a female by surgery
To remove a male animal's testicles
Antonyms
- Specialized
To make an egg or plant cell start growing by joining it with a male cell
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Etymology
Sterilize comes from the Latin sterilis, meaning 'barren' or 'not able to produce'. That's why to sterilize a person or animal is to make them unable to have babies.