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Disinfect   Listen
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Disinfect  v. t.  (past & past part. disinfected; pres. part. disinfecting)  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. "When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one... then to deodorize is to disinfect."





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"Disinfect" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them has been adapted to sacred words, and is much used in churches, but for the most part "Martha" is made of a series of jiggy choruses. Berlioz, who especially hated Flotow, declared that the "introduction of the Irish melody ('Last Rose of Summer') served to disinfect the rottenness ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon


Words linked to "Disinfect" :   clean, disinfection, chlorinate, sterilize, disinfectant, infect, sterilise, make clean, antisepticize


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