verb
- Make free from bacteria.
- Make infertile.
- usage: "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
- synonyms: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
adjective
- Made infertile.
- synonyms: sterilized
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