Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STER'IL-IZE
STER'IL-IZE, v.t.
- To make barren; to impoverish, land; exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.] – Woodward.
- To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little used.]
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