sterilize

sterilize is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.

[2] To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

[3] To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

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