Noah Webster
Sterilize
STERILIZE, verb transitive
1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little Used.]
2. To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little Used.]
STERILIZE, verb transitive
1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little Used.]
2. To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little Used.]