0 the act or process of making something completely clean and free from bacteria:
1 the act of changing something in order to make it less strongly expressed, less harmful, or less offensive:
This sanitization of death is comparatively recent.
He says something must be done to stop the sanitization of literature.
The factory was forced to close for weeks for sanitization and testing.
He wrote some guidelines on food safety and santization in restaurants.
After just two weeks, nurses using the milder soap and alcohol method of hand sanitization reported healthier skin.
The sanitization and romanticization of the military and warfare are hardly ever challenged.
You can't make a programme about the Holocaust without conveying some of the awful reality that took place, otherwise that's meaningless sanitization.
We reviewed processes contributing to cantaloupe contamination, conditions affecting survival and growth of bacterial pathogens on melons, and potential methods for sanitization.
We recommend daily spray sanitization of toothbrushes as part of a routine of infection control.
