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Listerizing

Listerizing is the present participle and gerund of Listerize.

Meaning of Listerize

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

Questions about Listerizing

What is Listerizing the present participle and gerund of?
Listerizing is the present participle and gerund of Listerize.

Words near Listerizing in the dictionary

  1. listeriotic
  2. Listerism
  3. Listerize
  4. Listerized
  5. Listerizes
  6. Listerizing
  7. listers
  8. listest
  9. listeth
  10. listful
  11. listfuls

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