sterilize

To make free from live bacteria or other microorganisms.

To eliminate the ability of a person or animal to produce offspring, as by altering or removing the reproductive organs.

To make incapable of bearing fruit or germinating.

To render (land) unfruitful.

To place (gold) in safekeeping so as not to affect the supply of money or credit.

To make inoffensive or innocuous.

To render sterile or unproductive in any way; specifically, in bacteriology, to render free from living germs, as by heating or otherwise. Also spelled sterilise.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.