sanitizev.

1836 New Monthly Mag. 47 14 Human industry is God's vicegerent in sanitizing, if I may dare to coin a word, the earth we tread, and the air we breathe.

1899 N. Brit. Daily Mail 28 Feb. 4 He, too, was closured, and every precaution taken to sanitise his surroundings.

1950 C. A. Lawrence Surface-active Quaternary Ammonium Germicides vi. 90 It can be said that dishes are sanitized by adequate cleaning.

1968 National Observer (U.S.) 22 Apr. His demand: an injunction directing the companies to sanitize their smoke or close down.

1971 Listener 11 Nov. 659 Air-conditioning sanitises the air.

1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. 20/2 (advt.) This formula permanently and completely removes urine and sanitizes your carpet.

1934 N.Y. Times 7 July 2/4 New words are being manufactured at NRA's code factory... Leon Henderson, economic adviser, has just turned out two which may some day find their way to dictionaries. ‘Sanitize’ is one. Mr. Henderson says it means putting ‘sanity and sanitation in business’.

1966 Amer. Speech 41 300 After it [sc. a document] has been sanitized, or redrafted to remove the secret information.

1974 News & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) 28 Apr. a–10/4 Aides claim the transcripts are accurate, but they have been ‘sanitized’ to delete Nixon's profanity and character slurs spoken in confidence.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 38/1 The Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy reacted to the criticism by trying to sanitize the report.

1978 Listener 30 Mar. 394/3 The language of the Pentagon is designed (if I may use an Americanism) to sanitise disagreeable realities and disreputable motives.

1978 Guardian Weekly 27 Aug. 15/4 NBC also has said that the rape scene was essential to the film's artistic integrity, although the network sanitized the scene after the furor created by the initial showing.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1258/4 A writer has no duty to sanitize his imagination; if defilement is what Potter most wants to write about, write about it he should. But..we do not have to like the taste of greasy hamburger.

1950 C. A. Lawrence Surface-active Quaternary Ammonium Germicides vi. 93 In those tests in which the number of bacteria did not exceed 100 per swab, the glasses were considered adequately sanitized regardless of the chemical agent used.

1970 Nature 17 Oct. 203/2 The commission found no consensus..that explicit sexual materials (the commission's sanitized word for ‘pornography’) should be banned.

1973 Nature 5 Oct. 231/1 The ‘sanitised’ transcripts of the proceedings have contained virtually no discussion of the possible implications of the programme.

1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 44/2 The towels are in place, the bed's made, even the ‘sanitized’ slip is still over the toilet.

1977 N. Freeling Gadget iv. 173 A hotel with..sanitized lavatory seats.

1979 G. Robertson Obscenity 274 The press published the original text, juxtaposed with the sanitised version prepared by the Corporation, after the director and dramatist had publicly protested against ‘this new and Orwellian form of political censorship’.