Disinfect

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disinfect \Dis`in*fect"\, v. 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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           When the infectious matter and the infectious matter
           and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to
           deodorize is to disinfect.               --Ure.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disinfect
       v : destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect
           a wound" [ant: {infect}]