sterilize

英 [ˈsterəlaɪz]

美 [ˈsterəlaɪz]

v. 灭菌; 消毒; 使绝育

过去分词：sterilized　过去式：sterilized　现在分词：sterilizing　第三人称单数：sterilizes　

Collins.1 / BNC.34830 / COCA.14878

牛津词典

verb

灭菌；消毒
to kill the bacteria in or on sth
1. to sterilize surgical instruments
  给外科手术器械消毒
2. sterilized milk/water
  消过毒的牛奶 / 水
使绝育
to make a person or an animal unable to have babies, especially by removing or blocking their sex organs

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 sterilise

VERB 对…作灭菌(或消毒)处理
If yousterilizea thing or a place, you make it completely clean and free from germs.
1. Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
  硫也可用来给器材消毒。
2. The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.
  牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。
VERB 使绝育
If a person or an animalis sterilized, they have a medical operation that makes it impossible for them to have or produce babies.
1. My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child.
  我妻子生完第4个孩子后做了绝育手术。

verb

make infertile
1. in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
Synonym:sterilisedesexunsexdesexualizedesexualisefix
make free from bacteria
Synonym:sterilise

The ultraviolet ray light can sterilize the packing material.
机内装有紫外线杀菌灯，能对包装材料进行消毒灭菌。
Failing to sterilize and wash the tools or vehicles for transportation of the medical wastes at the designated place in time after they are used; or.
对使用后的医疗废物运送工具或者运送车辆未在指定地点及时进行消毒和清洁的；
You can't sterilize children against violence.
你不可能让孩子们彻底远离暴力。
I'm gonna sterilize everything when I'm done.
我会把我用的器具消毒的。
Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment
硫也可用来给器材消毒。
Family do not use microwave to sterilize buy disinfecting cabinet, very cheap.
家庭不使用微波消毒柜消毒购买，非常便宜。
The utility model can not only sterilize and deodorize, but also can dry, remove the dust and purify the air.
本实用新型公开的多功能环境空气调节器是一种即能杀菌除臭，又能烘干除尘和净化空气的多功能环境空气调节器。
Eg. he boiled his syringe and fired his knife to sterilize them.
他把注射器放到水中煮，把刀子放在火上烧来进行消毒。
The first aim is to sterilize it ( to kill any disease-carrying organisms it may contain).
第一个目标是灭菌（杀死水中可能含有带病菌的任何有机体）。
Irradiation can also sterilize meat.
辐射还能对肉类进行消毒。