From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To deprive of the ability to procreate.
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2013 |author=w:Al Gore |chapter=The Reinvention of Life and Death
|title=[The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change]
|url=https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/ |location=New
York |publisher=w:Random House |ISBN=978-0-8129-9294-6 |LCCN=2012039890
|OCLC=827202765 |page=234
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/page/234/
|text=In China, the issue of forced abortions has resurfaced with the
allegations by escaped activist Chen Guangcheng, but the outgoing premier Wen
Jiabao has publicly called for a ban not only on forced abortion, but also of
“fetus gender identification.” Nevertheless, many women who have abortions in
China are also STERILIZED against their will.}}
1. [en] To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
2. [en] 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.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1937 | title=Technology Review | volume=40 | page=100
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1938 | author=C.B. Hutchison; S.B. Freeborn | title=Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California | page=44
|passage=The bottled juice must be heated to a temperature and for a time
sufficient to attain a STERILIZING temperature at the coolest point, usually
the center of the bottle.}}
1. [en] To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
2. [en] To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1974 | author=Miles Copeland | title=Without cloak or dagger: the truth about the new espionage | page=141
|passage=[...] (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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Evanthis Hatzivassiliou | title=NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc | page=2
|passage=The same phenomenon is also detectable in the records of the meetings
of NATO committees: the priority of avoiding any manifestation of internal
disagreements led to the production of 'STERILIZED' records of discussions
which evidently were significantly more lively than shown in the official
papers.}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[disable ability to procreate]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[make unable to produce; make unprofitable]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[(biology) to destroy all spores or germs]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
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*** See also
- [en]
- [en]
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*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** Further reading
- 吴语: Sterilization
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Turkish
*** Etymology
From [tr], past participle of [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
*** Adjective
[tr-adj]
1. sterilized
2. sterile (unable to reproduce)
[tr]