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An agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses
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viricide
Word definitions for viricide in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses [syn: virucide ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context medicine English) Any substance that destroys or inactivates viruses. Etymology 2 n. The act of killing one's husband.
Usage examples of viricide.
Ela and Novinha had already developed several new versions of the chemical, so that the next time the descolada adapted to one viricide they could switch immediately to another.
This time, though, the descolada had been killed within him by the viricide bacterium he had helped Ela devise.
Ela and her assistants simply brought several hundred sugar cubes impregnated with the viricide bacterium, and as many vials of solution containing the recolada.
After the universal viricide was invented, sexual mores had relaxed to a degree that our parents still had trouble believing.