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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Disinfected

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Disinfecting

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.

Verb.

[dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.