STERILIZES Synonyms

• a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments

• subject to the action of an autoclave

• clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

• purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

• rid of contamination

• destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin

• make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing

• make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features

• make free from bacteria

• make infertile

• make infertile

• direct one's libidinous urges into another direction

• make infertile

• direct one's libidinous urges into another direction

• make infertile

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug

• the act of putting something in working order again

• an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear

• a determination of the place where something is

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• cause to be firmly attached

• decide upon or fix definitely

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• take vengeance on or get even

• set or place definitely

• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• make infertile

• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• to be about to do something

• deprive of sex or sexual powers

• remove the qualities typical of one's sex

• make infertile