Sterilize: alternatives and connections

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

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To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

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Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

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To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

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

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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

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The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

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Fixed; solidified.

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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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