Sterilize Synonyms and Antonyms

stĕrə-līz
To render free of microorganisms
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decontaminate
  2. disinfect
  3. sterilise
  4. asepticize
  5. aseptify
  6. antisepticize
  7. boil
  8. autoclave
  9. incapacitate
  10. desex
  11. make sterile
  12. pasteurize
  13. unsex
  14. sanitize
  15. desexualize
  16. desexualise
  17. fix
Antonyms:
  1. contaminate
  2. dirty
To render incapable of reproducing sexually
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. alter
  2. castrate
  3. fix
  4. geld
  5. neuter
  6. spay
  7. change
  8. disinfect
  9. emasculate
  10. unsex
  11. purify
  12. sanitize

Words Related to Sterilize

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Sterilize Sentence Examples

  • A solution of I in 20 is used to sterilize instruments before an operation, and towels or lint to be used for the patient.

  • Make sure you thoroughly wash, sterilize and dry the bottles before use.

  • These organisms live in cockles, oysters and other lamellibranchs and they so affect the gonads of these molluscs as to castrate and sterilize their host.

  • Though Depretis, at the end of his life in 1887, showed signs of repenting of the confusion thus created, he had established a parliamentary system destined largely to sterilize and vitiate the political life of Italy.

  • Meanwhile, sterilize a sharp scalpel in the same way.

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