Sterile(a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
Sterile(a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
Sterile(a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
Sterile(a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
Sterility(n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.
Sterility(n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
Sterilization(n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.
Sterilize(v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
Sterilize(v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
Sterilize(v. t.) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
Sterilized(imp. & p. p.) of Sterilize
Sterilizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sterilize
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