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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinfect.

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Examples

  • I know, I know...the steam alone disinfects, blah, blah.

    Courtney Cachet: Cleaning Your House Made Cool... Really! Courtney Cachet 2011

  • I know, I know...the steam alone disinfects, blah, blah.

    Courtney Cachet: Cleaning Your House Made Cool... Really! Courtney Cachet 2011

  • I also really like how the protagonist attempted to cure a broken heart in the way that they cure cuts and scraped; I personally was told that the ocean would heal your cuts as a child, but I now know that it only disinfects them.

    EXIT • by Donna Steiner 2010

  • He disinfects his dollies and will soon get commercial driers to kill any possible bugs on the moving blankets.

    Bedbug Fears Add To Stress Of Moving Melanie Grayce West 2010

  • Elbow grease — the mechanical labor of scrubbing — often disinfects just well as chemical solutions.

    Some skip commercial cleaners for those made from pantry 2009

  • He did not need Sartre to convince him that the violence of the colonized has “a positive, formative character,” that it “unifies the people” and undermines “regionalism and tribalism”; that on the individual level, it “disinfects.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • He did not need Sartre to convince him that the violence of the colonized has “a positive, formative character,” that it “unifies the people” and undermines “regionalism and tribalism”; that on the individual level, it “disinfects.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • He did not need Sartre to convince him that the violence of the colonized has “a positive, formative character,” that it “unifies the people” and undermines “regionalism and tribalism”; that on the individual level, it “disinfects.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • IV-7 kills germs on any hard surface, carries bacterial "kill times" as quick as 30 seconds, and disinfects for up to 24 hours after the first application.

    Sheila Shayon: IV-7: The Next Generation of Germ Defense 2010

  • IV-7 kills germs on any hard surface, carries bacterial "kill times" as quick as 30 seconds, and disinfects for up to 24 hours after the first application.

    Sheila Shayon: IV-7: The Next Generation of Germ Defense 2010

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