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san·i·tize

sanitize

 
pronunciation:
sae nih taIz
part of speech: verb
inflections: sanitizes, sanitizing, sanitized
definition: When you sanitize something, you kill germs on it and make it very clean.
The nurse sanitized all the surfaces in the room before the new patient came in.
similar words:
purify
derivation: sanitization (n.)