sterilization

Noun

Meaning

The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sterilisation bactericidal fumigation cleaning altering sanitation hygiene sterile cleansing infertility pasteurization castration disinfection fecundity prophylaxis

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Antonyms

blight poison contamination contaminated foul dirty

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Hypernyms

operation surgery cleaning cleansing cleanup surgical procedure

Hyponyms

altering fixing pasteurization neutering pasteurisation surgical contraception

Related terms

sterilize

Phrases with the word

tubal sterilization female sterilization fallopian tube sterilization

Examples

For those impervious to history, only sterilization and quarantine are efficacious. Sheri S. Tepper

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective. Bertrand Russell

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. George Bernard Shaw

Throughout the 200+ pages of this book Sanger called for the elimination of "human weeds," for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and maladjusted," and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." Margaret Sanger

The main objects of the Population Congress would be [...] (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. Margaret Sanger

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. Margaret Sanger

Close letter words and terms

sterilizability sterilizable sterilizated sterilize sterilize animal sterilize with smoke