sterilize

sterilize is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
2. transitive verb. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
3. transitive verb. To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
4. verb. make infertile

   "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"

   Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex

5. verb. make free from bacteria

   Synonyms: sterilise

Synonyms

desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sterilize:

listerize

Common word forms

sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing

Words from these letters

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