Usually means: Eliminating all forms of life.
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  1. sterilizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. sterilizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sterilizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sterilizing, sterilizing: Wordnik
  5. sterilizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sterilizing: Wiktionary
  7. sterilizing: Dictionary.com
  8. sterilizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sterilizing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Sterilizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Sterilizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sterilizing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sterilizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterilizing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterilizing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterilizing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sterilizing: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sterilize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sterilize)

verb:  (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
verb:  (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
verb:  (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
verb:  (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
▸ Also see sterilize


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