Sterilize
verb
To make something free from bacteria or other living microorganisms.
After using them, you should sterilize the surgical instruments.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the equipment
- sterilize the instrument
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Technical
verb
To make a person or an animal unable to produce children or young.
After the operation, the cat was sterilized.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the cat
- sterilize the patient
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Academic
verb
To make something free from something that corrupts it or harms it.
The filtering process is intended to sterilize the water from harmful chemicals.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the water
- sterilize the system
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make something free from bacteria or other living microorganisms.
After using them, you should sterilize the surgical instruments.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the equipment
- sterilize the instrument
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make a person or an animal unable to produce children or young.
After the operation, the cat was sterilized.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the cat
- sterilize the patient
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make something free from something that corrupts it or harms it.
The filtering process is intended to sterilize the water from harmful chemicals.
Often appears as...
- sterilize the water
- sterilize the system
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Setting
Used when talking about keeping medical settings and tools germ-free to ensure patient safety.
After the examination, the nurse will sterilize the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Germs
Can refer to freeing something from anything harmful, not just bacteria or microorganisms.
The lab must sterilize this equipment from all chemical residues.
Pro Tip 3/3Food and Drink
Used in food processing or preservation, to prevent deterioration and maintain freshness.
You must sterilize jars before canning fruits.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Setting
Used when talking about keeping medical settings and tools germ-free to ensure patient safety.
After the examination, the nurse will sterilize the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Germs
Can refer to freeing something from anything harmful, not just bacteria or microorganisms.
The lab must sterilize this equipment from all chemical residues.
Pro Tip 3/3Food and Drink
Used in food processing or preservation, to prevent deterioration and maintain freshness.
You must sterilize jars before canning fruits.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Setting
Used when talking about keeping medical settings and tools germ-free to ensure patient safety.
After the examination, the nurse will sterilize the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Germs
Can refer to freeing something from anything harmful, not just bacteria or microorganisms.
The lab must sterilize this equipment from all chemical residues.
Pro Tip 3/3Food and Drink
Used in food processing or preservation, to prevent deterioration and maintain freshness.
You must sterilize jars before canning fruits.
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Drone First Aid PIPE...
first aid you have to include things like gloves scissors gauze bandage but they'll seem to the suture kit how much does that weight it weighs tomorrow they're gonna have to have a way of sterilize which means fire um so we need to send a fire starter with it all right so wound care you're gonna need several different oils but we don't typically
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Rescuing the UK's Rarest...
functioning system until you've got every cog component back in place and bear in mind in the uk that we have completely sterilized our countryside for years and years and years putting back as much we can is so important so putting the wildcat back in there as part of that very important predator guild is so important
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Kitten Lady on Orphaned...
sure that they're all sterilized so that there's not more population growth it's so essential because these kids they're coming into shelters and boxes and buckets and bins you wouldn't believe how many of these kittens are coming into shelters every year and they need our help okay so we're gonna do a little care
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Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
efforts to try and get veterinary services art into the community so that the communities can at least get access to it and they can get sterilized and sorted out and treated and make sure that they you know the rabid dogs are being kept under control and not getting into these wildlife areas
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This Dog Has a Crappy...
saying it's something that is healthy you know instead that eat something that just came out of your body and so there you go so now she's stepping away from the poop and by her stepping away I'm gonna reward that behavior again now sterilize the place it's very important
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
in my opinion. - And also would decimate whatever is there that we don't know yet. - Yeah, there's a very important paradigm that all the nations are following called Planetary Protection. So you sterilize spacecraft before they're on the surface,
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There may be extraterrest...
And finding any biosignatures will be challenging for many reasons. One of the biggest concerns is to make sure we sterilize our probes extremely thoroughly. Otherwise we could accidentally contaminate ocean worlds with Earth’s own bacteria,
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Robot Can Milk 70 Cows a...
a cow a brush system first cleans and sterilizing the teats with hydrogen peroxide to prevent any infection being passed on the orange brush then massages the cow's udder to encourage the production of the hormone oxytocin which
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What does the universe...
So there were signs that some of the surfaces might actually be molten lava and that there were very damaging X-rays coming from the central star -- X-rays that will sterilize the surface of life and even strip off atmospheres.
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What it means to be...
What if these surgeries sterilized you? What if they resulted in immense pain and scarring? What if you had to take medicine for the rest of your life
Video examples
Drone First Aid PIPE...
first aid you have to include things like gloves scissors gauze bandage but they'll seem to the suture kit how much does that weight it weighs tomorrow they're gonna have to have a way of sterilize which means fire um so we need to send a fire starter with it all right so wound care you're gonna need several different oils but we don't typically
Video examples
Rescuing the UK's Rarest...
functioning system until you've got every cog component back in place and bear in mind in the uk that we have completely sterilized our countryside for years and years and years putting back as much we can is so important so putting the wildcat back in there as part of that very important predator guild is so important
Video examples
Kitten Lady on Orphaned...
sure that they're all sterilized so that there's not more population growth it's so essential because these kids they're coming into shelters and boxes and buckets and bins you wouldn't believe how many of these kittens are coming into shelters every year and they need our help okay so we're gonna do a little care
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
efforts to try and get veterinary services art into the community so that the communities can at least get access to it and they can get sterilized and sorted out and treated and make sure that they you know the rabid dogs are being kept under control and not getting into these wildlife areas
Video examples
This Dog Has a Crappy...
saying it's something that is healthy you know instead that eat something that just came out of your body and so there you go so now she's stepping away from the poop and by her stepping away I'm gonna reward that behavior again now sterilize the place it's very important
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
in my opinion. - And also would decimate whatever is there that we don't know yet. - Yeah, there's a very important paradigm that all the nations are following called Planetary Protection. So you sterilize spacecraft before they're on the surface,
Video examples
There may be extraterrest...
And finding any biosignatures will be challenging for many reasons. One of the biggest concerns is to make sure we sterilize our probes extremely thoroughly. Otherwise we could accidentally contaminate ocean worlds with Earth’s own bacteria,
Video examples
Robot Can Milk 70 Cows a...
a cow a brush system first cleans and sterilizing the teats with hydrogen peroxide to prevent any infection being passed on the orange brush then massages the cow's udder to encourage the production of the hormone oxytocin which
Video examples
What does the universe...
So there were signs that some of the surfaces might actually be molten lava and that there were very damaging X-rays coming from the central star -- X-rays that will sterilize the surface of life and even strip off atmospheres.
Video examples
What it means to be...
What if these surgeries sterilized you? What if they resulted in immense pain and scarring? What if you had to take medicine for the rest of your life
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Ramez Naam
American Writer
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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John M. Grunsfeld
American Astronaut
The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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Anya Taylor-Joy
Argentinian Actress
I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.
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Benjamin Haydon
British Artist
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Bez
English Dancer
I have dentures and sometimes forget to put them in sterilizing fluid.
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Ramez Naam
American Writer
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Quote examples
John M. Grunsfeld
American Astronaut
The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Quote examples
Anya Taylor-Joy
Argentinian Actress
I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.
Quote examples
Benjamin Haydon
British Artist
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Bez
English Dancer
I have dentures and sometimes forget to put them in sterilizing fluid.
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