Sanitize

Definitions: Sanitize

Sanitize

Verb

1. Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing.

2. Make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features; "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book".

Synonyms: Sanitize

Synonyms: hygienize (v), sanitise (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sanitize

Specialty definitions using "sanitize": SHOE CLEANER ♦ treer. (references)

"Sanitize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanitize" is used about 2 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 (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

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 "sanitize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نظف (char, clean, clean out, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purge, purify, rub, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab, wash out), ‏عقم (disinfect, futility, scald, sterility, sterilize, vainness), ‏طهر (circumcise, decontaminate, depurate, disinfect, exorcise, exorcize, mop up, pureness, purge, purify, rid, scour, show, sterilize, sweeten). (various references)

Bulgarian		хигиенизирам (sanitate), правя по-приемлив, дезинфенкцирам (smoke out). (various references)

Chinese		作卫�"�处理 (sanitise, sanitised, sanitized). (various references)

Farsi		مطابق اصول بهداشت کردن , ازروی اصول بهداشتی عمل کردن . (various references)

French		expurger, désinfecter, assainir. (various references)

German		hygenisch machen. (various references)

Hungarian		higiénikussá tesz (to sanitize). (various references)

Italian		sanitizzare (sanitise), espurgare (bowdlerize, expurgate, sanitise). (various references)

Korean		위생� �으로 하십시�" (sanitise). (various references)

Pig Latin		anitizesay.(various references)

Russian		очищать очистка (purging, scour, scrubbing). (various references)

Swedish		städa upp (do out), snygga till (pretty up), rensa (clean, cleanse, clear, draw, dress, eviscerate, fettle, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, pick over, purge, scour, shell, weed), göra ren. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sanitize": sanitized, sanitizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sanitize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sanitas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sanitize" (pronounced sa"nutī'z)
5	-n u t ī' z	hypnotize.
4	-u t ī' z	alphabetize, democratize, deputize, desensitize, digitize, dramatize, prioritize, privatize, proselytize, securitize, sensitize, stigmatize, traumatize.
3	-t ī' z	advertise, amortize, neckties.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-s-t-z"
	-1 letter: isatine, zaniest, zeatins.
	-2 letters: azines, isatin, seizin, seniti, tenias, tineas, tisane, zanies, zeatin.
	-3 letters: anise, antes, antis, azine, entia, etnas, inset, intis, nates, nazis, neats, neist, nisei, nites, saint, satin, senti, stain, stane, stein, tains, tenia, tinea, tines, zeins, zetas, zitis.
	-4 letters: ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, etas, etna, inia, inti, nazi, neat, nest, nets, nisi, nite, nits, sain, sane, sate, sati, seat, sent, seta, sine, site, size, snit, tain, tans, teas, tens, ties, tine, tins, zein, zest, zeta, zins, ziti, zits.
	-5 letters: ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, ens, eta, ins, its, nae, net, nit, sae, sat, sea, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, ten, tie, tin, tis, zin, zit.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-s-t-z"
	+1 letter: latinizes, patinizes, sanitized, sanitizes, thiazines, triazines.
	+2 letters: platinizes.
	+3 letters: antiseizure, cinematizes, fanaticizes, gelatinizes, gleizations, initializes, italianizes, keratinizes.
	+4 letters: bestializing, erotizations, essentialize, infantilizes, internalizes, isoenzymatic, itemizations, miniaturizes, nationalizes, orientalizes, pasteurizing, rationalizes, realizations, romanticizes, schematizing, sectarianize, strategizing, suberization, suzerainties, tranquilizes.
	+5 letters: anesthetizing, apotheosizing, attitudinizes, azathioprines, containerizes, creolizations, deionizations, demonizations, deputizations, destabilizing, dieselization, dimerizations, embolizations, emotionalizes, energizations, equalizations, essentialized, essentializes, eternizations, etherizations, feminizations, fiberizations, fictionalizes, hebraizations, idealizations, industrialize, isomerization, laterizations, legalizations, melanizations, memorizations, metastasizing, monetizations, nationalizers, nebulizations, novelizations, penalizations, racemizations, rationalizers, restabilizing, sectarianized, sectarianizes, sensitization, serialization, sexualization, solemnization, sovietization, sterilization, suberizations, substantivize, systematizing, systemization, technicalizes, tetanizations, theorizations, thioridazines, tranquilizers, tranquillizes, transistorize, unparasitized, vasectomizing, velarizations.
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