sanitized
past simple and past participle ofsanitize
sanitize
verb[T]
(UKusuallysanitise)uk/ˈsæn.ɪ.taɪz/us/ˈsæn.ə.taɪz/sanitizeverb[T](CLEAN)
mainlyUS
to make somethingcompletelycleanandfreefrombacteria
to make something clean
- cleanYou'll need to clean the wound before you bandage it.
- cleanseThe herb is supposed to cleanse the body of toxins.
- disinfectWe disinfected the doorknobs with antibac wipes.
- sanitizeTest tubes must be washed and sanitized before use.
- sterilizeThe lab equipment was thoroughly sterilized before use.
- purifyPlants cut down on pollution and help purify the air.
Cleaning generally
- brushsomeone/somethingoff
- cleaner
- cleaning
- cleanse
- cleansing
- groom
- hoovering
- mop
- purification
- purify
- repurify
- scrub
- sponge
- sterilizing
- sweep
- swill
- wash(something)out
- washsomethingdown
- wipe
- wipesomethingdown
sanitizeverb[T](CHANGE)
disapproving
tochangesomething inorderto make it lessstronglyexpressed, lessharmful, or lessoffensive:
Themilitarywantstoallowonly a sanitizedreport/versionof theincidenttobecomepublic.
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- bury the ledeidiom
- candy coat
- candy coating
- candy-coated
- circumlocutory
- discursive
- euphemism
- hedge
- implicitly
- indirect
- indirectly
- lede
- mincing
- move offsomething/on (tosomething)
- obfuscation
- obscure
- sanitize
- sidestep
- veil
- wander
Examplesofsanitized
sanitized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is thissanitizedversion of patients' rights that anachronistically hangs on the walls of our healthcare organizations.
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First, food preparation surfaces, utensils, and equipment were not properlysanitized.
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Torment issanitizedby its inclusion in a religious and spiritual framework.
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It is often precisely this depoliticized,sanitizedconstruction of modernism that present-day critics have attacked, apparently unaware that this has always been a misrepresentation.
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But isn't that just asanitizedway of saying that secularists may think what they like as long as they keep quiet?
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Practitioners do not want the sort of research that has been so controlled andsanitizedthat it no longer relates to practice.
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There are plainly questions about how the latter is squared with even hissanitizeduse of myth and tradition.
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Storage tanks are required to be emptied, scrubbed andsanitizedevery 6 years.
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The medical officer not only stands guard over the space of the living but keeps watch over the dead in thesanitizedreception houses.
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High bee densities and re-use of old, poorlysanitizednesting materials typically result in enhanced chalkbrood incidence.
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In the authorized discourse of academic history, we expect to find circumspection, factual accuracy, seriousness, objectivity, a cer tain abstraction,sanitizedaccounts of motive, coherence, rationality, and so on.
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The stories in this book also serve as a welcome corrective to the manysanitizedand infantilized collections of ' folktales ' that often pass for oral literature.
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That comprehensive and devastating report was summarised,sanitizedand made available to a few people in the meat industry.
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No one wants to turn this into a bland,sanitizedstudio movie.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She takes the view that poisonous pedagogy is a behavior that is passed on from generation to generation by being euphemized andsanitized.
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- decoratively
- decorative motif
- decorative painter
- decorative panel
- decorative pattern
- decorative purpose
- decorative theme
- decorator
- decorous
- decorously
- decorticate
- decorum
- decouple
- decoupling
- decoy
- decoyed
- decoying
- decoy marketing
- decoy-marketing
- decrease
- decreased
- decreased appetite
- decreased mobility
- decreased oxygen
- decreased production