to sterilize
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5.8
- verb
- /ˈstɛrɪlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
esterilizar
- 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
46
7.5
To make an animal unable to have babies
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5.3
To remove an animal's organs used to make babies so it cannot reproduce
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8.1
To remove a female animal's ovaries so it cannot have young
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9.1
To remove the sex organs of a person or animal so they cannot have young
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7.1
To remove a female animal's ovaries so it cannot have babies
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7.2
A woman who has surgery to permanently stop having children by closing her fallopian tubes
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8.3
To stop an animal from having babies by removing or damaging its reproductive organs
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9.8
To cut or block the tubes that carry sperm so a man cannot father children
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8.7
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
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4.0
To make an egg or plant cell start growing by joining it with a male cell
How Infertile
- NSFW
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9.1
- Specialized
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5.8
- Specialized
- Literature
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8.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.