transcription, транскрипция: [ sterɪlaɪz ]
( sterilizes, sterilizing, sterilized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'sterilise'
1.
If you sterilize a thing or a place, you make it completely clean and free from germs.
Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
VERB : V n
• steri‧li‧za‧tion
...the pasteurization and sterilization of milk.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If a person or an animal is 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.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
• steri‧li‧za‧tion
(sterilizations)
In some cases, a sterilization is performed through the vaginal wall.
N-VAR