| 释义 | sanitizesan‧i‧tize (also sanitise British English) /ˈsænətaɪz/ verb [transitive]    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 | 
1to remove particular details from a report, story etc in order to make it less offensive, unpleasant, or embarrassing – used especially to show disapproval: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.
 the sanitized version of events which was reported in the government-controlled media2to clean something thoroughly, removing dirt and bacteria |