Sterilized

Definition: Sterilized

Sterilized

Adjective

1. Made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments".

2. Made infertile.

Date "sterilized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonyms: Sterilized

Synonyms: antiseptic (adj), sterilised (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: appertized can (food & agriculture), canned food, preincubated sterilized milk, prereduced anaerobically sterilized (medicine), quick sterilized milk (food & agriculture), sterile steamed sterilized feed, sterilized area, sterilized can, sterilized canned food (food & agriculture, personal care & hotels), sterilized cloth (medicine), sterilized intervention (finance), sterilized milk (food & agriculture), sterilized nutrition (medicine), sterilized oil (chemical industry, medicine), sterilized tinned food (food & agriculture, personal care & hotels), sterilized water (medicine), tinned food (food & agriculture), ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk.

Crosswords: Sterilized

English words defined with "sterilized": unsterilised, unsterilized. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sterilized": ANIMAL-NURSERY WORKER, autoclave operator ♦ children's zoo caretaker, chromic catgut, chromicized catgut, Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic ♦ EGG PROCESSOR ♦ feather renovator, febre de Marseille, febre eruptiva ♦ POLY-PACKER AND HEAT-SEALER ♦ RENOVATOR-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ STERILIZER OPERATOR. (references)

Etymologies containing "sterilized": sterilize. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

And if you forget one thing i will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed! (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples)

Would it endanger your amateur standing if I asked you to use a sterilized needle? (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards)

If we're eliminated, the aircraft and pilot will have to be sterilized. (The Andromeda Strain; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Nelson Gidding)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,. Credit: Library of Congress.		Cans are sterilized in steam before filling and sealing. Phillips Packing Company, Cambridge, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The food that NASA astronauts eat has been sterilized by irradiation to avoid getting foodborne illness in space. (references)
		Because many states have adopted laws requiring that all garbage fed to hogs be sterilized, fewer people get trichinosis. (references)
		In addition, when needles or syringes are used, they may not be of the disposable type, or may not have been sterilized, but only rinsed before re-insertion into multi-use vials of medicine. (references)
Business		These included reversing the growing tendency to use disposable equipment by introducing more re-usable equipment - provided it can be sterilized without difficulty, and segregating waste to ensure that a minimum of household waste is mixed with the clinical waste. (references)
Children	Moldova	He also was rumored to have sterilized forcibly a teenage girl in his care. (references)
	Austria	Previously, mentally retarded minor girls could be sterilized involuntarily at the request of parents, and mentally retarded women could be sterilized involuntarily at the request of the responsible family member or by court order. (references)
	Austria	On January 1, an omnibus bill on child custody went into effect that prohibits the sterilization of minors, particularly mentally handicapped girls below the age of 18. Those 18 and older only may be sterilized in life-threatening instances. (references)
Economic History	Egypt	High real interest rates caused considerable foreign capital inflows and an increase in reserves, which the Central Bank sterilized through sale of T-bills. (references)
	Romania	However, due to the fragility of Romanian economic fundamentals, the NBR will proceed cautiously, and full implementation is not expected before 2004. The central bank is also concerned about "hot money", that is, about potentially large inflows of short-term portfolio investment that should be sterilized in ROL in order to reduce impact on inflation and exchange rate stability. (references)
Human Rights	Sweden	Under the country's pre-1976 practice of forced sterilization thousands of persons were forcibly sterilized between 1934-76. The majority of those sterilized were persons with mental or physical disabilities. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sterilized" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Sterilized" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	61.54%	16	87,710
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.23%	5	157,705
Adjective (general or positive)	19.23%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

Expressions using "sterilized": sterilized can ♦ sterilized milk. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sterilized": surface-sterilized.
	Containing "sterilized": fully-sterilized tinned goods.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sterilized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i sterilizuar (scalded). (various references)

Arabic		‏معقم (antiseptic, disinfected, sterile), ‏مجدب (arid, barren, desert, dry, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian		обезплоден. (various references)

Chinese		消炎 (sterilise, sterilised, sterilize, Sterilizing). (various references)

Czech		sterilizovaný. (various references)

Danish		sterilt kogt steriliseret foder (sterile steamed sterilized feed), steriliseret område (sterilized area), steriliseret mælk (sterilized milk), langtidsholdbar mælk (condensed milk, dried milk, evaporated milk, sterilized milk), konserves (European Federation of Importers of Dried Fruit, Preserves, Spices and Honey-FRUCOM, sterilized canned food, sterilized tinned food), kimfri ernæring (sterilized nutrition), forinkuberet steriliseret mælk (preincubated sterilized milk), daasekonserves (appertized can, canned food, sterilized can, tinned food), afdækningsstykke (sterilized cloth). (various references)

Dutch		levensmiddelen in blik (appertized can, canned food, sterilized can, tinned food), kiemvrij gestoomd voer (sterile steamed sterilized feed), ingeblikte eetwaren (sterilized canned food, sterilized tinned food), gesteriliseerde voeding (sterilized nutrition), gesteriliseerde melk met daaraanvolgende incubatie (preincubated sterilized milk), gesteriliseerde melk met bebroeding (preincubated sterilized milk), gesteriliseerde melk (sterilized milk), gedesinfecteerde oppervlakte (sterilized area), conserven (European Federation of Importers of Dried Fruit, Preserves, Spices and Honey-FRUCOM, sterilized canned food, sterilized tinned food). (various references)

Finnish		steriloitu öljy (sterilized oil), UHT-käsitelty maito (quick sterilized milk, ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk), tölkkisäilyke (appertized can, canned food, sterilized can, tinned food), iskukuumennettu maito (quick sterilized milk, ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk), höyryttämällä steriloitu rehu (sterile steamed sterilized feed). (various references)

French		stérilisé. (various references)

German		sterilisierten, sterilisierte, keimfrei gemacht (pasteurized). (various references)

Greek		γάλα U.H.T. (quick sterilized milk, ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk), γάλα μακράς συντηρήσεως (quick sterilized milk, ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk), γάλα αποστειρωμένο προεπωασμένο (preincubated sterilized milk), γάλα αποστειρωμένο ταχέως (quick sterilized milk, ultra high temperature(U.H.T.)sterilized milk), αποστειρωμένη νομή (sterile steamed sterilized feed), αποστειρωμένο γάλα (sterilized milk), απολυμανθείσα επιφάνεια (sterilized area). (various references)

Hebrew		מעוקר (castrated, sterile), מחוטא (disinfected, sterile). (various references)

Hungarian		sterilizált, steril (aseptic, germless, sterile). (various references)

Italian		sterile (arid, barren, fruitless, infertile, sterile, unfertile). (various references)

Korean		살� 하�" (sterilised). (various references)

Manx		shiastit, jeant shiast, amridit. (various references)

Pig Latin		erilizedstay

Portuguese		superfície desinfectada (sterilized area), roupa esterilizada (sterilized cloth), nutrição esterilizada (sterilized nutrition), leite esterilizado pré-incubado (preincubated sterilized milk), leite esterilizado (sterilized milk), forragem esterilizada por vapor (sterile steamed sterilized feed), forragem esterilizada (sterile steamed sterilized feed), conserva enlatada (appertized can, canned food, sterilized can, tinned food), alimentação esterilizada (sterilized nutrition). (various references)

Russian		стерилизованный (aseptic, sterile). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sterilisan, sterilan (sterile). (various references)

Spanish		esterilizado. (various references)

Swedish		steriliserad olja (sterilized oil). (various references)

Turkish		sterilize, steril (aseptic, sterile), mikropsuz (aseptic, germproof, sterile). (various references)

Ukrainian		стерилізований (sterile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "sterilized": presterilized, unsterilized. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sterilized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sterelize, sterilise, sterilised. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sterilized" (pronounced ste"rulī'zd)
7	-e" r u l ī' z d	paralyzed.
6	-r u l ī' z d	centralized, decentralized, demoralized, hydrolyzed, neutralized.
5	-u l ī' z d	analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, demobilized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, normalized, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, vandalized, visualized.
4	-l ī' z d	creolized, realized, stylized.
3	-ī' z d	accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-r-s-t-z"
	-1 letter: sterilize.
	-2 letters: relisted, siderite.
	-3 letters: deities, diester, dieters, dirties, ditsier, ditzier, leister, reedits, resiled, resited, resized, retiled, retiles, seltzer, siltier, sterile, tidiers, zestier.
	-4 letters: delist, desert, desire, deters, diesel, dieter, direst, distil, ditzes, driest, ediles, eiders, elders, eldest, elides, elites, idlers, idlest, irides, irised, lieder, listed, listee, lister, liters, litres, reedit, relets, relied, relies.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-r-s-t-z"
	+2 letters: detribalizes, restabilized, unsterilized.
	+3 letters: demilitarizes, editorializes, presterilized, underutilizes.
	+4 letters: dematerializes, derealizations, despiritualize, editorializers, rehospitalized.
	+5 letters: deindustrialize, despiritualized, despiritualizes, federalizations, reindustrialize, respiritualized.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
sterilized	3
disposable sterilized syringe	2
absorbent cotton sterilized	2
seed sterilized	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sterilized

Definition: Sterilized

Sterilized

Adjective

Synonyms: Sterilized

Crosswords: Sterilized

Modern Usage: Sterilized

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Photo Album: Sterilized

Non-Fiction Usage: Sterilized

Usage Frequency: Sterilized

Expressions: Sterilized

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sterilized

Modern Translation: Sterilized

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Anagrams: Sterilized

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