verb
1. make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sanitisation, ↑sanitization (for: ↑sanitize)
• Hypernyms: ↑clean, ↑make clean
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
2. make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
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sanitize a document before releasing it to the press
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sanitize history
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sanitize the language in a book
• Syn: ↑sanitize
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.