Usually means: Clean to remove harmful substances.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word sanitize:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanitize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sanitize: Merriam-Webster
  3. sanitize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sanitize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sanitize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sanitize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sanitize, sanitize: Wordnik
  8. sanitize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sanitize: Wiktionary
  10. sanitize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sanitize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sanitize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sanitize: Dictionary.com
  14. sanitize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sanitize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. sanitize: Rhymezone
  17. sanitize: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sanitize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sanitize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanitize: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanitize: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. sanitize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanitize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sanitize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanitize: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sanitization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the receiving system.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).
verb:  (transitive) To revise (a document) in order to prevent identification of the sources.

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