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English to English verb
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make free from bacteria |  | source: wordnet30
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make infertile |  | Example: in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
source: wordnet30
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To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. |  | source: webster1913
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