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antibactericidal

antibactericidal is the misspelling of bactericidal.

antibactericidal is the misspelling of antibacterial.

Meaning of bactericidal

Adjective

bactericidal (not comparable)

  1. That kills bacteria.
    • It would, therefore, have seemed a natural inference that the same agent would exert a similar bactericidal effect when added to other infectious body fluids.1901 December 20, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Rinderpest”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 21, page 641
  2. Of or pertaining to a bactericide.

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Meaning of antibacterial

Adjective

antibacterial (not comparable)

  1. Killing or inhibiting bacteria.
    • This drug has an antibacterial effect.
  2. (archaic) Opposing the theory that diseases are caused by bacteria.

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Questions about antibactericidal

What is antibactericidal the misspelling of?
Antibactericidal is the misspelling of bactericidal.

Words near antibactericidal in the dictionary

  1. antibacillary
  2. antibacklash
  3. antibacterial
  4. antibacterially
  5. antibacterials
  6. antibactericidal
  7. antibacteriolytic
  8. antibacteriophage
  9. antibailout
  10. Antibalaka
  11. Antibalakas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antibactericidal (page history and authors); bactericidal (page history and authors); antibacterial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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