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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sanitize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Forman has sanitized the film to fit its R-rating.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ So many leaders want to sanitize leadership, make it sound clean and noble.
▪ They keep trying to sanitize the event and give it pretentiously serious overtones when all the children want to do is party.
▪ Wearing a police uniform did not sanitize a working man from ungodly ways.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sanitize

1836, from stem of sanitary + -ize.\nMetaphoric sense is from 1934. Related: Sanitized; sanitizing.\n

Wiktionary
sanitize

alt. 1 (context transitive English) to partially free something of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting 2 (context transitive by extension English) to make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material 3 (context transitive computing English) to remove sensitive or personal data from a database or file before giving the public access to it 4 (context transitive English) to revise a document in order to prevent identification of the sources vb. 1 (context transitive English) to partially free something of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting 2 (context transitive by extension English) to make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material 3 (context transitive computing English) to remove sensitive or personal data from a database or file before giving the public access to it 4 (context transitive English) to revise a document in order to prevent identification of the sources

WordNet
sanitize
  1. v. make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing [syn: sanitise, hygienize, hygienise]

  2. make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features; "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book" [syn: sanitise]

Usage examples of "sanitize".

In every other instance, the Iraqis had sanitized the facility, although they were not always as fastidious as they should have been and their mistakes did provide crucial evidence of their larger deceptions.

Still, she realized with a start that Ponter had, to this point, been exposed only to a sanitized view of Earth.

Three deaths from cancer in the same family, the source of which might lie in the now sanitized dump.

Science in the Third Reich sanitized paranoia, disguising hatred of the Jew in the language and practice of a biological-medical argument premised on identifying the Jew with infection.

I told her a sanitized version of how they had set him up, and how he had refused to listen to me.

In retrospect, the sterilization program served as an early paradigm for techniques of annihilation and the public policy of sanitizing the culture against biological and genetic threat.

To engage in experiments that would advance the cause of sanitizing blood and genes was a commitment to the highest ideals of the Kultur-group.

It is not likely that industrial death, the sanitizing of bodies, derives from genes inherent in the human organism.

Although the tour group never got closer than ten yards away from any door to the imposing granite temple, they visited the famed Mormon Tabernacle and for most of an hour digested a version of Mormondom so sanitized that the Church could have been mistaken for a mainstream Protestant sect.

The problems I have so far permitted myself to identify have been essentially internal ones, those of false clues or inadequate experiments - and even most of these became sanitized away in the ultimately progressivist account of the last two chapters.

His complete works were published in 1776 by Rigolet de Juvigny in a sanitized form.

One resembled a sanitized and opulent version of one of the notorious drug dens of Altair III, another was a formal, candle-lit affair featuring crisp linen tablecloths, fine china and silver, and servants in powdered wigs and Revolutionary America costumes, while a third was simply a huge silk tent in which the customers sat or reclined on large cushions and ate off a long, very low table.

In every other instance, the Iraqis had sanitized the facility, although they were not always as fastidious as they should have been and their mistakes did provide crucial evidence of their larger deceptions.

Layers of beef, cleaned and cut and sanitized into sterile-looking shapes.

In a twist on the usual plagiarism-situation, the hardest work for Struck here is going to be sanitizing the prose in this Wild Conceits guy's thing, or at least bringing the verbs and modifiers down out of the like total ozone, which the Academese here on the wrhole sounds to Struck like the kind of foam-flecked megalograndiosity he associates with Quaaludes and red wine and then the odd Preludin to pull out of the grandiose nosedive of the Quaaludes and red wine.