Crossword clues for disinfect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disinfect \Dis`in*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinfecting.] To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
When the infectious matter and the infectious matter
and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to
deodorize is to disinfect.
--Ure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent.
WordNet
v. destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound" [ant: infect]
Usage examples of "disinfect".
But the alcohol would disinfect the wound and he could put some of the antibacterial cream on it afterward.
And between contestants, the transmitter of the breath will be disinfected by a registered trained nurse with Listerine, so that there may be no build-up, or cumulative effect.
Meanwhile, because it was not a catering day and because Tom had sworn to disinfect the kitchen over the weekend, the dogs were enjoying an unusual foray into the kitchen.
Sadly Yarad had been disinfected by Raele himself when he had destroyed the nest of subversives at Aotearoa on Inel's orders.
Though the medical droid had done a serviceable job of washing her body and disinfecting the wound before cauterizing it, the droid had no programming on what to do with hair.
In the meantime, she had patients to tend, those who'd just taken superficial bites and clawings she could disinfect and cover with dressings.
Blocks the nerve, shuts down the bleeding, debrides and disinfects the wound, all in seconds.
Jake seldom left the disinfected, mostly defoliated, electronically protected confines of Mira City.
He stopped the fire engines, the swan, and the stag, devaluated Rasputin's coins, sent Goethe back to the Mothers, sent four thousand dizzy little children floating off to Kasemerk, across the Vistula, to the kingdom of heaven -- and picked Oskar up from his sickbed, and lifted him up on a cloud of Lysol, that is to say, he disinfected me.
Towels and bed linens were washed and dried in high heat, the kitchen area cleaned and disinfected, cooking utensils and silverware boiled before use.
Even in the grocery store, surrounded in one aisle by more kinds of food than will ever be known in a Congolese lifetime, there was nothing on the air but a vague, disinfected emptiness.
But the metal one was more easily disinfected, and she'd taken the time in the shower to clean it.
She found a bottle of Lysol and disinfected the outside of the plastic bag.
The apothecary's cabinet had been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, and now held stores of dried leaves, roots, and fungi, neatly packed in cotton-gauze bags.
And he knew names, so many that it became tedious, that to me who was also swimming in Lysol the question of the life and death of a hundred thousand names became less important than the question of whether life and, if not life, then death, had been disinfected adequately and on time with Mr.