Usually means: Make free from living microorganisms.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterilize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sterilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sterilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sterilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sterilize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sterilize, sterilize: Wordnik
  7. sterilize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sterilize: Wiktionary
  9. sterilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sterilize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sterilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sterilize: Dictionary.com
  13. sterilize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sterilize (album), Sterilize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sterilize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sterilize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sterilize: Rhymezone
  18. sterilize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sterilize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sterilize: Free Dictionary
  21. sterilize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sterilize: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sterilize: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. sterilize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterilize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sterilize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterilize: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sterilization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
verb:  (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
verb:  (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
verb:  (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.

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