Sterilizing synonyms and antonyms

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contaminating (antonym)
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
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fixing
To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means:
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spaying
To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) in order that it cannot become pregnant.
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sanitizing
To revise a document in order to prevent identification of the sources
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purifying
Purify means to make something clean or free from impurities.
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neutering
Neuter means to make an animal neutral or incapable of reproduction.
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gelding
To castrate a horse or other similar animal.
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emasculating
Emasculate is defined as to deprive someone or something of its power and vigor, or to make a man unable to reproduce or to make a male feel like less of a man.
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disinfecting
To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent such as bleach.
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changing
To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; switch:
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castrating
(--- Rare) To remove the ovaries of; spay
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altering
To change the form or structure of.
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pasteurizing
To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
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incapacitating
Incapacitate is defined as to make a person or thing unable to do something.
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boiling
To cook or clean by boiling.
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decontaminating
To remove contamination from something, and thus render it safe.
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dirtying (antonym)
To dirty is to cause something to become unclean or impure.
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cleaning (related)
To be made clean
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Find another word for sterilizing. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sterilizing, like: contaminating, fixing, unsexing, spaying, sanitizing, purifying, neutering, gelding, emasculating, disinfecting and changing.
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Sterilizing Sentence Examples

  • The ozone so prepared has numerous uses, as, for example, in bleaching oils, waxes, fabrics, &c., sterilizing drinking-water, maturing wines, cleansing foul beer-casks, oxidizing oil, and in the manufacture of vanillin.

  • The acid sulphite, NaHSO 3, obtained by saturating a cold solution of the carbonate with sulphur dioxide and precipitating by alcohol, is employed for sterilizing beer casks.

  • The fundamental idea of Soxhlet's method for sterilizing milk is to boil it for forty minutes in small bottles holding just enough for one meal, and closing the same with an impervious stopper, which is only removed just before use.

  • One practical outcome of these researches is the method now always adopted of sterilizing by a succession of gentle warmings, sufficient to kill the developed micro-organisms, instead of by one fierce heating attempting to attack the more refractory undeveloped germs of the same.

  • The vaccine is usually made by sterilizing a virulent culture and the proper dose is ascertained by noting 'the extent to which the power of the leucocytes to envelop and digest the microbes is increased.

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