Crossword-Solution: STERILIZE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sterilize | v. t. | To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. |
| Sterilize | v. t. | To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. |
| Sterilize | v. t. | 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. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “STERILIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Boil, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Degerm | 1 answer |
| Make safe for use, in a way | 1 answer |
| Pass through fire, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Prepare surgical tools | 1 answer |
| make free from bacteria | 1 answer |
| make infertile | 1 answer |
| Make sterile | 2 answers |
| Pasteurize | 2 answers |
| Prepare for surgery | 3 answers |
| make female | 21 answers |
| Geld | 24 answers |
| Neuter | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STERILIZE (5)
Aunt Hannah, why does a baby think that everything, from his own toes to his father's watch fob and the plush balls on a caller's wrist-bag, is made to eat? As if I could sterilize everything, and keep him from getting hold of germs somewhere!” “You'll have to have a germ-proof room for him,” laughed Alice Greggory, playfully snapping her fingers at the baby in Aunt Hannah's lap.
Enforced companionship in large quantities and on an equal basis between the sexes appears to sterilize the affections, and schoolroom romances are few.
Still, though theological modes of thought continued to sterilize much effort in chemistry, the old influence was more and more thrown off, and truth sought more and more for truth's sake.
They are almost circumscribed: if fully so The battle's ours! What's that behind them, eh? OFFICER Their last reserves, that they may feed the front, And sterilize our hope! FRANCIS Yes, their reserve-- Dragoons and cuirassiers--charge in support.
The French war-nurse sometimes mislays an instrument or forgets to sterilize a dressing; but she almost always finds the consoling word to say and the right tone to take with her wounded soldiers.
Quotes with STERILIZE (3)
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the ma…
Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1974–2013).