in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 sterilise
- VERB 对…作灭菌(或消毒)处理
If you sterilize a thing or a place, you make it completely clean and free from germs.
- Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
硫也可用来给器材消毒。 - The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.
牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。
- VERB 使绝育
If a person or an animal is sterilized, they have a medical operation that makes it impossible for them to have or produce babies.
- My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child.
我妻子生完第4个孩子后做了绝育手术。