Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To submit a second time to the process of sterilization.
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- verb transitive To
sterilize again.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Per Matt: … so creating an air of technical controversy around the fact that the exact degree to which lack of insurance is harmful helps resterilize things.
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The only rest came during the one-hour turnover between surgeries, time used to clean the operating room, resterilize the equipment, and swap out the patients.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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Now, Scottsdale police crime-lab examiners must pack everything up and resterilize the lab so they can work on new evidence when a more urgent case comes in.
azcentral.com | news 2009
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There’s obviously a lot of discomfort with the idea of a highly moralized debate about the values implicated in the decision to support or resist efforts to expand access to affordable health insurance, so creating an air of technical controversy around the fact that the exact degree to which lack of insurance is harmful helps resterilize things.
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