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- to sterilize surgical instruments
给外科手术器械消毒 - sterilized milk/water
消过毒的牛奶 / 水
- to sterilize surgical instruments
- 使绝育
to make a person or an animal unable to have babies, especially by removing or blocking their sex organs
柯林斯词典
- 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.- Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
硫也可用来给器材消毒。 - The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.
牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。
- Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
- 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.- 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。
- My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child.
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 sterilise
英英释义
verb
- make infertile
- in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
- make free from bacteria