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Wiktionary
sterilise

alt. ''(British and Commonwealth):'' To sterilize. vb. ''(British and Commonwealth):'' To sterilize.

WordNet
sterilise
  1. v. make free from bacteria [syn: sterilize]

  2. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]

Usage examples of "sterilise".

I thought the best thing was to localise and sterilise it in one process.

Eggelby, in a tone which had been thoroughly sterilised of even perfunctory regret.

An hour, and a considerable number of cuffs, slaps and punches later, Phaid found himself sprayed, shaved, sterilised, retina printed and brain scanned for a second time, indoctrinated, inspected, assigned to a hall and weighed down by a pile of clothing and bedding.

All she could give her tonight was some warm milk, after she sterilised the bottle she had found in the filthy blanket used to wrap her in.

Nurse Banks, an older woman than her superior, looked up from the sterilising apparatus.

She dined on chopped liver, courtesy of the management, and had her own cat bed and litter box, both guaranteed sterilised - so said the paper band around each of them, like the one around the toilet seat in my bathroom.