disinfect : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: disinfect	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disinfect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disinfect v destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound" Antonym(s): infect, taint
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disinfect \Dis`in*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disinfected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disinfecting}.] 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.