Usually means: Make sterile item contaminated again.
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  1. desterilize: Merriam-Webster
  2. desterilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. desterilize: Wiktionary
  4. desterilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. desterilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. desterilize: Dictionary.com
  7. desterilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (desterilize)

verb:  (transitive) To contaminate (medical equipment, etc.) so that it is no longer sterile.
verb:  (economics) To carry out a monetary process that is the reverse of sterilization.

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