英语词汇“sterilize”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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When you sterilize something, you make it completely clean and free from any contaminant. It's important to sterilize tools, hands, and furniture in hospitals so germs don't get spread between patients.

People who make their own jam and pickles need to sterilize the jars first, and when you feed a tiny baby it's important to sterilize the bottles. Whenever you need to make sure something is as clean as possible, you should sterilize it. The earliest meaning of sterilize is still in use, too: to "make infertile," or to make it impossible for an organism to reproduce or have a baby.

WORD FAMILY

sterilize: sterilization, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing+/sterile: sterileness, sterilise, sterility, sterilize/sterilise: sterilisation, sterilised, steriliser, sterilises, sterilising/sterilised: unsterilised/steriliser: sterilisers/sterility: sterilities/sterilization: sterilizations/sterilized: unsterilized/sterilizer: sterilizers

USAGE EXAMPLES

But the delicate devices can’t be sterilized like a scalpel because intense heat would destroy crucial components.

Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017)

There is only one machine to sterilize surgical instruments in the entire hospital, and it does not work properly.

Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)

Liberals joined his efforts in recent years to compensate Virginians who were forcibly sterilized between 1924 and 1979 under a state eugenics program.

Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)

v make free from bacteria

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sterilise

autoclave

subject to the action of an autoclave

disinfect

destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing

v make infertile

in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized

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desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex

alter, castrate, neuter, spay

remove the ovaries of

castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate

remove the testicles of a male animal

vasectomise, vasectomize

remove the vas deferens

defeminise, defeminize

remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)

caponise, caponize

convert a cock into a capon

cut, geld

cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

operate, operate on

perform surgery on

单词	sterilize
释义	sterilize (once / 3878 pages) 1v 2v When you sterilize something, you make it completely clean and free from any contaminant. It's important to sterilize tools, hands, and furniture in hospitals so germs don't get spread between patients. People who make their own jam and pickles need to sterilize the jars first, and when you feed a tiny baby it's important to sterilize the bottles. Whenever you need to make sure something is as clean as possible, you should sterilize it. The earliest meaning of sterilize is still in use, too: to "make infertile," or to make it impossible for an organism to reproduce or have a baby. WORD FAMILY sterilize: sterilization, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing+/sterile: sterileness, sterilise, sterility, sterilize/sterilise: sterilisation, sterilised, steriliser, sterilises, sterilising/sterilised: unsterilised/steriliser: sterilisers/sterility: sterilities/sterilization: sterilizations/sterilized: unsterilized/sterilizer: sterilizers USAGE EXAMPLES But the delicate devices can’t be sterilized like a scalpel because intense heat would destroy crucial components. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) There is only one machine to sterilize surgical instruments in the entire hospital, and it does not work properly. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Liberals joined his efforts in recent years to compensate Virginians who were forcibly sterilized between 1924 and 1979 under a state eugenics program. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 v make free from bacteria Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper sterilise autoclave subject to the action of an autoclave disinfect destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing 2 v make infertile in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex alter, castrate, neuter, spay remove the ovaries of castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate remove the testicles of a male animal vasectomise, vasectomize remove the vas deferens defeminise, defeminize remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) caponise, caponize convert a cock into a capon cut, geld cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) operate, operate on perform surgery on
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