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Listerize

Listerize verb: to make antiseptic.

Verb

Listerize (third-person singular simple present Listerizes, present participle Listerizing, simple past and past participle Listerized)

  1. (dated, transitive) To make antiseptic.
    • […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284
    • Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.1887, Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics, page 144

Forms of Listerize

third-person singular presentListerizes
present participleListerizing
past participleListerized
pastListerized

Origin of Listerize

From Lister + -ize.

Questions about Listerize

What does Listerize mean?
Listerize means to make antiseptic.
What part of speech is Listerize?
Listerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Listerize?
The past tense of Listerize is Listerized.

Words near Listerize in the dictionary

  1. listeriophages
  2. listerioses
  3. listeriosis
  4. listeriotic
  5. Listerism
  6. Listerize
  7. Listerized
  8. Listerizes
  9. Listerizing
  10. listers
  11. listest

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