Sanitize

Quick meaning: Sanitize is a verb meaning (transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.

Meaning

(transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, by extension) To make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material.
2. (transitive, computing) To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).
3. (transitive) To revise (a document) in order to prevent identification of the sources.
4. (transitive, computing) To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the receiving system.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: bowdlerize

Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.

And yet for all that, the filmmakers were in fact trying to sanitize Mitchell’s novel.

Both caricatures are appropriately mean, but if the show is going to continue using them, it needs to take care not to sanitize the real people, as it has done with dangerously incompetent and malicious figures in the past, such as George W Bush or Trump himself.

Word Forms

• sanitizes
• sanitizing
• sanitized
• sanitise

Synonyms for sanitize

Depending on context, synonyms include bowdlerize, hygienize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hygienize, disinfect, purify, cleanse, wash, clean.

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