STERILIZE, verb transitive
1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.]
2. To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little used.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.