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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ster·il·ize /ˈstɛrəˌlaɪz/
 (vt.)使成不毛,斷種,殺菌,消毒

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ster·il·ize /ˈstɛrəˌlaɪz/ 及物動詞
 絕育,滅菌,消毒

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ster·il·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized p. pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing ]
 1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] Sterilizing the earth.”
 2. Biol. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
 3. Microbiology, Medicine To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by bacteria or other organisms.  A common method of sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sterilize
      v 1: make free from bacteria [syn: sterilise]
      2: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically
         transmissible disbilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilise,
          desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]