disinfect

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disinfect - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           When the infectious matter and the infectious matter
           and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to
           deodorize is to disinfect.               --Ure.
     [1913 Webster]

disinfect - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  disinfect
      v 1: destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing;
           "disinfect a wound" [ant: infect, taint]