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.
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vb. (present participle of disinfect English)
Usage examples of "disinfecting".
Then, carrying her air hose, she crossed the disinfecting chamber and climbed through the final airtight door into the main part of the lab.
The wheel to the door leading into the disinfecting chamber was turning!
Then, having bartered rolled oats and synthetic honey for different kinds of disinfectant, he took to disinfecting himself, his whole family, Maria, and myself every single day.
Theater at the Front, standing men, disinfecting recumbent figures in Treblinka Camp.
This disinfecting, he decided, was some new project of the Democrats in Washington.
He washed his body twice, the first time with a bleach solution, the second time with water and disinfecting soap.
It was possible that in spite of days and weeks of treatment with disinfecting chemicals, some corners of the tunnels under the Lower East Side had remained hot.
I extended the incision, sNAished my fingers thoroughly in the disinfecting bowl, then put two fingers on the loop and pushed it gently upward.
I extended the incision, sNAished my fingers thoroughly in the disinfecting bowl, then put two fingers on the loop and pushed it gently upward.
Pill bottles, rat poison, roach powder, cleaning and disinfecting agents, garden insecticides, that kind of thing.
Sergeant Grafton insisted on disinfecting my neck with horse liniment.
There was already a heap of ashes in the fireplace when he began his own bonfire, and he guessed that Lemuel had spent part of the previous evening disinfecting his private papers.
This will probably hurt," he warned her as he turned his back on her and, after disinfecting his hands, started to probe the jagged flesh.