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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anti-bacterial

also antibacterial, 1875, from anti- + bacterial.

Usage examples of "anti-bacterial".

Along the southeast rim, the first team of naoli anti-bacterial warfare technicians deployed their equipment and began to introduce the proper anti-toxin to eliminate the hungry, microbes.

Rather truculently, I agreed to sit on the upholstered stool in front of her vanity while she went to work cleaning the wound first with soap and water, then an anti-bacterial spray.