| steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| steelyard | (noun) a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length | Synonyms: beam scale, lever scale |
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| steenbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steinbok |
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| steep | (adjective) having a sharp inclination | - |
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| (adjective) of a slope; set at a high angle | - |
| (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious |
| (noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
| (verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: infuse |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up |
| steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
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| (verb) become steeper | - |
| steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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| steepish | (adjective) somewhat steep | - |
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| steeple | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: spire |
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| steeplechase | (noun) a horse race over an obstructed course | - |
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| (noun) a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump | - |
| steeplechaser | (noun) a horse trained to run in steeplechases | - |
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| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| steeply | (adverb) in a steep manner | - |
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| steepness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitousness |
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| steer | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: bullock |
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| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, tip, wind |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point |
| (verb) direct (oneself) somewhere | - |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: guide |
| steerable | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: dirigible |
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| steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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| (noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| steerer | (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: decoy |
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| (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steersman |
| steering | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, guidance |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: guidance |
| (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steerage |
| steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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| steganography | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: coding, cryptography, secret writing |
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| stegosaur | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: Stegosaur stenops, stegosaurus |
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| stegosaurus | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: stegosaur, Stegosaur stenops |
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| stein | (noun) a mug intended for serving beer | Synonyms: beer mug |
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| steinbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steenbok |
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| stela | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stele |
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| stele | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stela |
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| (noun) the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant | - |
| stelis | (noun) any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers | - |
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| stellar | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: astral |
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| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, starring |
| stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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| stem | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it | Synonyms: stem turn |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, prow |
| (noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
| (verb) remove the stem from | - |
| (verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in | - |
| (verb) cause to point inward | - |
| stemless | (adjective) not having a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: acaulescent |
| stemma | (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: ocellus, simple eye |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock |
| (noun) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work | - |
| stemmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a textual stemma | - |
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| stemmatics | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatology |
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| stemmatology | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatics |
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| stemmed | (adjective) having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, cauline |
| (adjective) having the stem removed | - |
| stemmer | (noun) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) | - |
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| (noun) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge | - |
| (noun) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem | Synonyms: stemming algorithm |
| (noun) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers | - |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stripper |
| stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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| stencil | (noun) a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below | - |
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| (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
| stenograph | (noun) a machine for typewriting shorthand characters | - |
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| (noun) a shorthand character | - |
| (verb) write in shorthand | - |
| stenographer | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: amanuensis, shorthand typist |
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| stenographic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographical |
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| stenographical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographic |
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| stenography | (noun) the act or art of writing in shorthand | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, tachygraphy |
| stenopterygius | (noun) an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius | Synonyms: Stenopterygius quadrisicissus |
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| stenosed | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenotic |
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| stenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stricture |
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| stenotic | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenosed |
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| stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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| stentor | (noun) any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor | - |
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| (noun) a speaker with an unusually loud voice | - |
| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| step | (noun) the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down | - |
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| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance | Synonyms: dance step |
| (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: stair |
| (noun) a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed | - |
| (noun) a musical interval of two semitones | Synonyms: tone, whole step, whole tone |
| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, footprint |
| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, footstep |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, stride |
| (noun) a short distance | Synonyms: stone's throw |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: gradation |
| (verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: pace |
| (verb) move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation | - |
| (verb) place (a ship's mast) in its step | - |
| (verb) shift or move by taking a step | - |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) move with one's feet in a specific manner | - |
| (verb) furnish with steps | - |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat |
| (verb) cause (a computer) to execute a single command | - |
| stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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| stepchild | (noun) a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stephanion | (noun) the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus | - |
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| stephanotis | (noun) any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers | - |
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| stephead | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stepped line |
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| stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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| stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| steppe | (noun) extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) | - |
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| stepper | (noun) a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting | Synonyms: high stepper |
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| (noun) a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps | Synonyms: stepping motor |
| (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: hoofer |
| steprelationship | (noun) a family relationship by virtue of remarriage | - |
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| steps | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: stairs |
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| (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | - |
| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| stepson | (noun) the son of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepwise | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step |
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| (adverb) proceeding in steps | Synonyms: step by step |
| steradian | (noun) the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: sr |
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| stercobilinogen | (noun) a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bilirubin; yields urobilins on oxidation; some is excreted in the feces and some is resorbed and excreted in bile or urine | Synonyms: urobilinogen |
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| stercolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, fecalith |
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| sterculia | (noun) any tree of the genus Sterculia | - |
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| stereo | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereophonic, two-channel |
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| (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo system, stereophonic system, stereophony |
| (noun) two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together | Synonyms: stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture |
| stereochromy | (noun) a process of mural painting in which the pigment is fixed by a series of reactions between the lime, fluosilicic acid, and water glass. | - |
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| stereoisomer | (noun) any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement. | - |
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| stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| stereophotography | (noun) photography producing images that appear to have depth and solidness and that are created by using a special device (called a stereoscope) to look at two slightly different photographs of something at the same time. | Synonyms: stereo photography, stereoscopic photography |
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| stereoscope | (noun) an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs | - |
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| stereoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to stereoscopy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a stereoscope | - |
| stereoscopy | (noun) three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina | Synonyms: stereoscopic vision |
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| stereotype | (noun) a conventional or formulaic conception or image | - |
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| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
| stereotyped | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypic | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypical | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, unimaginative |
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| stereotypically | (adverb) in a stereotypical manner | - |
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| sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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| (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
| sterileness | (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: antisepsis, asepsis, sterility |
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| sterilisation | (noun) the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) | Synonyms: sterilization |
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| (noun) the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means) | Synonyms: sterilization |
| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilised | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilized |
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| steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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| sterility | (noun) the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | Synonyms: infertility |
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| (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: antisepsis, asepsis, sterileness |
| sterilization | (noun) the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) | Synonyms: sterilisation |
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| (noun) the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means) | Synonyms: sterilisation |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| sterilized | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilised |
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| sterilizer | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, steriliser |
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