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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
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- 1transitive verb
To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
- 2transitive verb
To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4verb
make infertile
"in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
- 5verb
make free from bacteria
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