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Disinfect
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.