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sanitizesan‧i‧tize (also sanitise British English) /ˈsænətaɪz/ verb [transitive] ![](img/spkr_b.png) VERB TABLEsanitize |
Present | I, you, we, they | sanitize | | he, she, it | sanitizes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sanitized | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sanitized | | he, she, it | has sanitized | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sanitized | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sanitize | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sanitized |
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Present | I | am sanitizing | | he, she, it | is sanitizing | | you, we, they | are sanitizing | Past | I, he, she, it | was sanitizing | | you, we, they | were sanitizing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sanitizing | | he, she, it | has been sanitizing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sanitizing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sanitizing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sanitizing |
- Forman has sanitized the film to fit its R-rating.
- So many leaders want to sanitize leadership, make it sound clean and noble.
- They keep trying to sanitize the event and give it pretentiously serious overtones when all the children want to do is party.
- Wearing a police uniform did not sanitize a working man from ungodly ways.
1to remove particular details from a report, story etc in order to make it less offensive, unpleasant, or embarrassing – used especially to show disapproval: the sanitized version of events which was reported in the government-controlled media2to clean something thoroughly, removing dirt and bacteria |