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单词 disinfect
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disinfectv.

/dɪsɪnˈfɛkt/
Etymology: < dis- prefix 2a + infect v.: perhaps < French désinfecter (1556 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. transitive. To rid (a person or place) of an infection or infectious disease. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > disinfect [verb (transitive)]
disinfect1598
season1722
sanitize1836
antiseptize1878
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Smorbare, to disinfect, to cure, to heale.
1722 London Gaz. No. 6025/2 La Canourgue and Banassac were disinfecting, none had newly fallen sick there.
2. transitive. To cleanse (a room, clothes, etc.) from infection; to destroy the germs of disease in. Also intransitive.
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1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds 63 They use to make great fires, where there is houshold-stuffe of men that died of the Pestilence, to dis-infect [1664 disinfect] them.
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds 64.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Disinfect, to cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.
1844 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 3 396 The best mode of disinfecting the clothes of scarlatina patients.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 36 Stenhouse has employed charcoal for disinfecting the air.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 37 Water disinfects partly by preventing effluvia from arising from bodies.

Derivatives

disinˈfected adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [adjective] > disinfected
disinfected1890
sanitized1950
1890 B. A. Whitelegge Hygiene & Public Health xi. 241 One of these rooms should be strictly reserved for infected and the other for disinfected goods.
disinˈfecting adj. and n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [noun]
disinfection1803
disinfecting1837
sanitization1940
sanitizing1940
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 109/1 As a disinfecting agent..it [chlorine] is unrivalled.
1853 ‘Stonehenge’ Greyhound iii The walls should be well washed with chloride of lime, or..disinfecting fluid.
1894 Times 30 Sept. 3/3 A thorough system of disinfection by disinfecting officers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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