Nearby Words
Sanitized
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excuse, clear of responsibility or blame |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, disburden, discharge, dismiss, except, exculpate, exempt, free, justify, let off hook, let off, liberate, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, vindicate, whitewash, wipe slate clean |
| Notes: | to exculpate is 'to free from accusation or blame' while exonerate is literally 'to free from a burden' |
| Antonyms: | accuse, blame, charge, condemn, incarcerate, incriminate, sentence |
| Main Entry: | fumigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disinfect, ventilate |
| Synonyms: | air out, antisepticize, circulate, decontaminate, deodorize, fan, freshen, purify, sanitize, sterilize, vaporize |
| Main Entry: | purify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free; make clean |
| Synonyms: | absolve, aerate, aerify, atone, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, deodorize, depurate, deterge, disinfect, edulcorate, elutriate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, filter, fumigate, lustrate, oxygenate, purge, rarify, redeem, refine, remit, sanctify, sanitize, shrive, sublimate, wash |
| Antonyms: | adulterate, corrupt, dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | sterilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make clean or unproductive |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix, fumigate, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay |
| Antonyms: | dirty |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nullify, cancel |
| Synonyms: | abnegate, abrogate, annul, black out, bleep, blue pencil, clean up, cut, declare null and void, discharge, dissolve, drop*, gut, invalidate, launder, rescind, sanitize, sterilize, take out, trim, vacate |
| Notes: | void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away |
| Antonyms: | allow, permit, sanction, validate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
| Synonyms: | absolve, aerate, aerify, atone, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, deodorize, depurate, deterge, disinfect, edulcorate, elutriate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, filter, fumigate, oxygenate, purge, rarify, redeem, refine, remit, sanctify, sanitize, shrive, sublimate, wash |
| Main Entry: | spay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix*, fumigate, geld, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, unsex |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsex |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix*, fumigate, geld, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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