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

You can't sterilize children against violence.
你不可能让孩子们彻底远离暴力。
Irradiation can also sterilize meat.
辐射还能对肉类进行消毒。
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。
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）。
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。
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。
Wriggle pump filling system is convenient to clean, sterilize.
灌装系统为蠕动泵、清洁、消毒方便、生产稳定。
This paper introduces a new technique of ozone on line oxidation to sterilize RO filtrated pure water for drinking.
本文介绍了一种盘管在线式臭氧接触氧化处理RO纯水工艺。
But should not be relied upon to sterilize water.
但决不可用来消毒饮用水。
There, my "papa" would allow me to fill syringes and sterilize instruments for him.
在那里，我的爷爷会让我为他填充注射器并且为一些器具消毒。