Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sterilize
Participle: sterilized
Gerund: sterilizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sterilize |
| you | sterilize |
| he;she;it | sterilizes |
| we | sterilize |
| you | sterilize |
| they | sterilize |
Perfect
| I | have sterilized |
| you | have sterilized |
| he;she;it | has sterilized |
| we | have sterilized |
| you | have sterilized |
| they | have sterilized |
Past
| I | sterilized |
| you | sterilized |
| he;she;it | sterilized |
| we | sterilized |
| you | sterilized |
| they | sterilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had sterilized |
| you | had sterilized |
| he;she;it | had sterilized |
| we | had sterilized |
| you | had sterilized |
| they | had sterilized |
Future
| I | will sterilize |
| you | will sterilize |
| he;she;it | will sterilize |
| we | will sterilize |
| you | will sterilize |
| they | will sterilize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sterilized |
| you | will have sterilized |
| he;she;it | will have sterilized |
| we | will have sterilized |
| you | will have sterilized |
| they | will have sterilized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sterilize |
| you | sterilize |
| he;she;it | sterilize |
| we | sterilize |
| you | sterilize |
| they | sterilize |
Perfect
| I | have sterilized |
| you | have sterilized |
| he;she;it | have sterilized |
| we | have sterilized |
| you | have sterilized |
| they | have sterilized |
Imperfect
| I | sterilized |
| you | sterilized |
| he;she;it | sterilized |
| we | sterilized |
| you | sterilized |
| they | sterilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had sterilized |
| you | had sterilized |
| he;she;it | had sterilized |
| we | had sterilized |
| you | had sterilized |
| they | had sterilized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sterilize |
| you | would sterilize |
| he;she;it | would sterilize |
| we | would sterilize |
| you | would sterilize |
| they | would sterilize |
Perfect
| I | would have sterilized |
| you | would have sterilized |
| he;she;it | would have sterilized |
| we | would have sterilized |
| you | would have sterilized |
| they | would have sterilized |
Imperative
| you | sterilize |
| we | Let's sterilize |
| you | sterilize |
Verbs conjugated like 'sterilize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sterilize'
sterilise,
desterilize,
resterilize,
senilize,
serialize,
stabilize,
arterialize,
bovrilize,
devilize,
esterize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English sterile
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
8. Late Latin -izōder.
9. Middle French -iserbor.
10. Middle English -isen
11. English -ize
12. English sterilize
13. From sterile + -ize.
Verbs referencing "sterilize"
Finnish with old forms
sterilisoida.
Sample Sentences
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If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny). [1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality, page 441:]
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In China, the issue of forced abortions has resurfaced with the allegations by escaped activist Chen Guangcheng, but the outgoing premier Wen Jiabao has publicly called for a ban not only on forced abortion, but also of “fetus gender identification.” Nevertheless, many women who have abortions in China are also sterilized against their will. [2013, Al Gore, “The Reinvention of Life and Death”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234:]
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One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […] [1937, Technology Review, volume 40, page 100:]
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The bottled juice must be heated to a temperature and for a time sufficient to attain a sterilizing temperature at the coolest point, usually the center of the bottle. [1938, C.B. Hutchison, S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44:]
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[…] (minus, of course, any information that might identify the agent and other operational personnel), or he might code it or "sterilize" it, and reward the foreign station chief in some other way. [1974, Miles Copeland, Without cloak or dagger: the truth about the new espionage, page 141:]
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The same phenomenon is also detectable in the records of the meetings of NATO committees: the priority of avoiding any manifestation of internal disagreements led to the production of 'sterilized' records of discussions which evidently were significantly more lively than shown in the official papers. [2014, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc, page 2:]