sterilize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To deprive of the ability to procreate. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
    — If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).
  2. To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
  3. 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. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
    — One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]
  4. To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
  5. To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
    — […] (minus, of course, any information that might identify the agent and other operational personnel), or he might code it or "sterilize" it, and reward the foreign station chief in some other way.

词形变化

sterilizes present,singular,third-person sterilizing participle,present sterilized participle,past sterilized past sterilise alternative

词汇关系

近义词
sterilize
下位词
desex fix castrate emasculate geld neuter spay splay
衍生词
chemosterilize desterilize nonsterilizing presterilize radiosterilize resterilize sterilizable sterilizee sterilizer thermosterilize
相关词
sterile sterilization birth control castrate castrato eunuch procreate procreation spay copulate

词源

Etymology tree
English sterile
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English sterilize
From sterile + -ize.
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