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: --
She takes the view that poisonous pedagogy is a behavior that is passed on from generation to generation by being euphemized and sanitized.
No one wants to turn this into a bland, sanitized studio movie.
That comprehensive and devastating report was summarised, sanitized and made available to a few people in the meat industry.
The stories in this book also serve as a welcome corrective to the many sanitized and infantilized collections of ' folktales ' that often pass for oral literature.
In the authorized discourse of academic history, we expect to find circumspection, factual accuracy, seriousness, objectivity, a cer tain abstraction, sanitized accounts of motive, coherence, rationality, and so on.
High bee densities and re-use of old, poorly sanitized nesting materials typically result in enhanced chalkbrood incidence.
The medical officer not only stands guard over the space of the living but keeps watch over the dead in the sanitized reception houses.
Storage tanks are required to be emptied, scrubbed and sanitized every 6 years.