disinfect Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing
    • disinfect a wound

WordNet

Dis`in*fect" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Disinfected; present participle & verbal noun Disinfecting
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913