| VERB | body | sterilize, sterilise | make free from bacteria |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Sounds | steh'rahlay.z | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | make free from bacteria. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | sterilise | |
| Narrower | autoclave | Subject to the action of an autoclave |
| Broader | disinfect | Destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing |
| Spanish | esterilizar | |
| Catalan | esterilitzar | |
| Nouns | sterilization | the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means) |
| sterilizer | a device for heating substances above their boiling point | |
| Meaning | make infertile. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" | |
| Synonyms | sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | |
| Narrower | alter, neuter, spay, castrate | Remove the ovaries of |
| emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise | Remove the testicles of a male animal | |
| vasectomize, vasectomise | Remove the vas deferens | |
| Broader | operate on, operate | Perform surgery on |
| Spanish | capar, castrar, emascular, esterilizar, mutilar | |
| Catalan | esterilitzar | |
| Nouns | sterilization | the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) |
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