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STERILIZATION
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
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Big
11
pts
Super Big
26
pts
STERILIZATION is a valid 13-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 26 in Super Big Boggle.
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noun
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BritishEnglishOxfordUSuncountableThe process of treating something to kill or inactivate microorganisms.
- Heat sterilization is used during canning so the food can be safely stored for long periods.
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BritishEnglishOxfordUSuncountableA procedure to permanently prevent an organism from reproducing.
- Spaying a cat is a form of sterilization to limit the population growth.
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BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableAn instance of a sterilization procedure.
- The vet performed several sterilizations this week.
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BritishEnglishOxfordUSuncountableA monetary policy operation used to offset a foreign exchange intervention.
- The Federal Reserve is responsible for foreign exchange sterilization.
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BritishEnglishOxfordUSuncountableThe process of permanently rendering a planet like Earth completely uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, leading to their complete extinction.
- In about 1 billion years, the increasing heat from the Sun as it gradually ages, by triggering a runaway greenhouse effect that will boil away the oceans, will lead to the complete sterilization of all life on Earth.