sterilise

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sterile + -ise

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Plain form
sterilise

Third-person singular
sterilises

Past tense
sterilised

Past participle
sterilised

Present participle
sterilising

  1. (biology) If a living thing is sterilised, it is killed, deactivated or destroyed.

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