Disinfect

Disˊin-fect′

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Disinfected

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

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

.

Ure.

Disinfect

DISINFECT

,

Verb.

T.

[dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.

disinfect

English

Verb

disinfect ‎(third-person singular simple present disinfects, present participle disinfecting, simple past and past participle disinfected)

To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent.

Translations

sterilize by the use of cleaning agent

Bulgarian: дезинфекцирам ‎(dezinfekciram), обеззаразявам (bg) ‎(obezzarazjavam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 消毒 (zh) ‎(xiāodú)
Danish: desinficere
Finnish: desinfioida (fi)
French: désinfecter (fr)
German: desinfizieren (de)
Greek: απολυμαίνω (el) ‎(apolymaíno)
Hungarian: fertőtlenít (hu)
Japanese: 消毒する (ja) ‎(しょうどくする, shōdoku suru)

Norman: d'sînfecter
Luxembourgish: desinfizéieren
Norwegian: desinfisere (no)
Polish: dezynfekować (pl), odkażać
Portuguese: desinfetar
Russian: дезинфици́ровать (ru) impf, pf ‎(dezinficírovatʹ), обеззара́живать (ru) impf ‎(obezzaráživatʹ), обеззара́зить (ru) pf ‎(obezzarázitʹ)
Spanish: desinfectar (es)
Swedish: desinfektera (sv)
Volapük: sänäfätön

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Disinfect

Disˊin-fect′

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Disinfect

DISINFECT

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