Verb
- 1. sanitize, sanitise, hygienize, hygienise, clean, make clean
- usage: make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
- 2. sanitize, sanitise, change, alter, modify
- usage: make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features; "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book"
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