Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.

  2. (broadly, transitive)To make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material.

    Near-synonym: bowdlerize

    цензурироватьcenzurirovatʹ, вымарыватьvymaryvatʹ

    make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features

  3. (transitive)To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the receiving system.

    Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.

    sanitizen

    очищатьočiščatʹ

  4. (transitive)To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).

    keimfrei machen, hygienisch machen

    дезинфицироватьdezinficirovatʹ, стерилизоватьsterilizovatʹ

  5. (transitive)To revise (a document) in order to prevent identification of the sources.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. All equipment must be sanitized.

    ruВсё оборудование должно быть продезинфицировано.

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  2. Do you sanitize your hands often?

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  3. Hospital beds are sanitized after every use.

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  4. Wash your kitchen towels with hot water to sanitize them.

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  5. Clean both sides of the cutting board to ensure it's thoroughly sanitized.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to bowdlerize:
to filter text:
to free from microorganisms:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to filter text:
to free from microorganisms:

Origin

From sanitary. By surface analysis, sanity + -ize.

From sanitary. By surface analysis, sanity + -ize.

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Forms

sanitizes, sanitizing, sanitized, sanitized
Base formsanitize · to sanitize
3rd person singularsanitizes
Present participlesanitizing
Past simplesanitized
Past participlesanitized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysanitize
he, she, itsanitizes

Past simpleLesson

all personssanitized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sanitized
he, she, ithas sanitized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sanitize

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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