Word Meanings - STERILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. To destroy all

Additional info about word: STERILIZE

1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. To destroy all spores or germs in , as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• STERILIZE
  1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. To destroy all
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• EARTHNUT
  A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
• EARTHEN
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• IMPOVERISH
  F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. 2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as,
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.