Word Meanings - DISINFECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
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- PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - DEODORIZE
To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - DISINFECT
To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure. - INFECTIOUS
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter - DISINFECTANT
That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine. - INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in - DISINFECTOR
One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants. - INNOCUOUS
Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent. A patient, innocuous, innocent man. Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n. Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. Wordsworth. - CONTAGIOUSLY
In a contagious manner. - MATTERLESS
1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial. - DISINFECTION
The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter. - ODORIFEROUS
Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n. - CONTAGIOUSNESS
Quality of being contagious. - MATTER-OF-FACT
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry. - DESTROY
destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy - DEODORIZER
He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors. - MATTERY
1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson. - INFECTIOUSNESS
The quality of being infectious. - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - REPURIFY
To purify again. - SMATTERER
One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist. - SUBJECT-MATTER
The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science - SMATTERING
A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.