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Agent that destroys bacteria
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disinfectant
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disinfectant was a popular antivirus software program for the classic Macintosh operating system . It was originally released as freeware by John Norstad in the spring of 1989. Disinfectant featured a system extension that would detect virus infections ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
disinfectant \dis`in*fect"ant\, n. That which disinfects, especially an agent for killing or removing the microorganisms which cause infection. Commonly used disinfectants are chlorine, sodium hypochlorite solution, hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, from French désinfectant (1816), noun use of present participle of désinfecter (see disinfect ). From 1875 as an adjective.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms [syn: bactericidal , germicidal ] n. an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease [syn: germicide , antimicrobic , antimicrobial ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the end of each shift, the teams remove their dive suits and drop them in barrels of disinfectants. ▪ At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Referring to something that contains a disinfectant or has the property of a disinfectant. n. A substance that kills germ and/or virus.
Usage examples of disinfectant.
I used disinfectant soap with cold water to wash it out, then slathered it in an antibacterial gel before laying several plastic bandages over the injury, to hold it closed.
Dyeing -- Manufacture of Pigments -- Writing Inks -- Purification of Lighting Gas -- Agriculture -- Cotton Dyeing -- Disinfectant -- Purifying Waste Liquors -- Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid -- Fertilising.
Nastasya Filippovna, by two containers of something called Zhdanov fluid, used in Russia as a disinfectant and deodorant.
While Cat cleaned the wound with disinfectant the best she knew how and folded a torn section of a freshly laundered bedsheet, Culley answered her questions between grunts of pain.
He had one small bag of disinfectants and Syrettes and was determined to use them efficiently.
The smell of beeswax furniture polish, and of wilted chrysanthemums, and the lingering aroma of bedpan and disinfectant.
I looked into it briefly and decided it was a job for a shovel, a hose, a broom and some strong disinfectant, and while I was collecting those things Bananas and Cassie walked anxiously along from the pub.
The gunslinger went to the tiny, leaning church by the graveyard while Allie washed tables with strong disinfectant and rinsed kerosene lamp chimnies in soapy water.
The air was redolent of disinfectants and medicinal odors, indicating that Joanna might have been imprisoned twelve years ago in one of these second-floor rooms.
He told Maria to fill two quart bottles with kerosene, added a package of synthetic honey and a whole assortment of disinfectants, and listened, nodding absently, as my grandmother listed all the many things that had burned down in Bissau and Bissau Quarry during the fighting.
In the first place, there were practically no medicines and no disinfectants in the shack.
Overlapping the smell of disinfectants came the sour, musty odors of mold and rat droppings.
The space stank of disinfectants and the ersatz-garden effect of air purifier perfumes.
The space stank of disinfectants and the ersatz-garden effect of air purifier perfumes.
There were at hand plenty of those strong, specially prepared soaps and other disinfectants constantly used by the women of their kind who still cling to cleanliness and health.