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Disinfect

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

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Chlorinate 76% connected

To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.

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Sterilize 76% connected

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

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Broader term 1

Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Disinfectant 74% connected

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

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Disinfectant 74% connected

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

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Disinfection 74% connected

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

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Disinfection 74% connected

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

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