Definition of "sterilizing" []

• Present participle of sterilize. (verb)

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• "When we use the term sterilizing we simply mean cooking the product for a certain period of time after the jar has been filled with food."
• "COHEN: Right now what we've done, right now is that probably going through a methodical process of what they call sterilizing the actual campus, which means that now that the actual SWAT team is there, they are probably moving in large numbers through every corner and every hole, sweeping for additional threats, looking for other potential threats as well, as wounded people who they might not have found."
• "The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control."