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.
• CONTAGIOUSLY
  In a contagious manner.
• 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.
• 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.