0 past simple and past participle of sanitize
1 to make something completely clean and free from bacteria
2 to change something in order to make it less strongly expressed, less harmful, or less offensive:
It is this sanitized version of patients' rights that anachronistically hangs on the walls of our healthcare organizations.
First, food preparation surfaces, utensils, and equipment were not properly sanitized.
Torment is sanitized by its inclusion in a religious and spiritual framework.
It is often precisely this depoliticized, sanitized construction of modernism that present-day critics have attacked, apparently unaware that this has always been a misrepresentation.
But isn't that just a sanitized way of saying that secularists may think what they like as long as they keep quiet?
Practitioners do not want the sort of research that has been so controlled and sanitized that it no longer relates to practice.
There are plainly questions about how the latter is squared with even his sanitized use of myth and tradition.
Storage tanks are required to be emptied, scrubbed and sanitized every 6 years.
