sterilize

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

sterilize, UK usually sterilise UK US [ˈster.ɪ.laɪz] verb transitive [ sterilizes sterilizing sterilized ]
 
STOP CHILDREN

1. to perform a medical operation on someone in order to make them unable to have children
• After having five children, she decided to be sterilized.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Contraception
 
CLEAN

2. to make something completely clean and free from bacteria
• All equipment must be sterilized before use.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Preventing infection

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix