Definition of Sterilize

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Sterilize

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

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Sterilize Quotations

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sterilize Translations

sterilize in Dutch is steriliseren
sterilize in German is sterilisiere, sterilisieren, keimfrei machen
sterilize in Spanish is esterilizar

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