BIOFOULING Antonyms

• the removal of contaminants

• treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms

• a condition promoting sanitary practices

• the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health

• activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

• means of maintenance of a family or group

• court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

• the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

• the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community

• the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

• the condition of being (well or ill) preserved

• a process that saves organic substances from decay

• an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

• the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

• the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing

• making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing

• the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)

• the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)