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Verb: sterilize  'ste-ru`lIz
  1. Make free from bacteria
    - sterilise [Brit]
     
  2. Make infertile
    "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
    - sterilise [Brit], desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise [Brit], fix

Derived forms: sterilized, sterilizing, sterilizes

See also: sterilization, sterilizer

Type of: disinfect, operate, operate on

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