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

Sterilize baby bottles every day.
每天替婴儿所用的奶瓶消毒。
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。
A more efficient technique is to sterilize the attracted insects.
一种比较有效的方法是使被吸引的昆虫绝育。
But should not be relied upon to sterilize water.
但决不可用来消毒饮用水。
You can't sterilize children against violence.
你不可能让孩子们彻底远离暴力。
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。
The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.
牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。
A tank-like device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or sterilize surgical instruments.
加热物体使其到达沸点的坦克形状的设备；用于制造化学药品或外科杀菌工具。
Irradiation can also sterilize meat.
辐射还能对肉类进行消毒。
Expel toxin, cleanse pores, accelerate metabolism, balance oil secretion, sterilize and tighten, prevent acnes.
排解毒素，净化毛孔，加速细胞代谢，平衡油脂分泌，杀菌收敛，防治暗疮。