sterilize

• sterilise (UK)

sterile +‎ -ize

sterilize (third-person singular simple present sterilizes, present participle sterilizing, simple past and past participle sterilized)

1. To deprive of the ability to procreate.
2. To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
3. (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.

• sterile
• sterilization

• birth control
• castrate
• castrato
• eunuch
• procreate
• procreation
• spay

• sterilize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Wikipedia article on sterilization

• Listerize