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Disinfect   /dɪsɪnfˈɛkt/   Listen
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Disinfect  v. t.  (past & past part. disinfected; pres. part. disinfecting)  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. "When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one... then to deodorize is to disinfect."






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"Disinfect" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cold has reached this stage it is a pronounced case of roup, and highly contagious. Separate all the ailing fowls and segregate them in comfortable hospital quarters, warm but with one side partly open for fresh air. Disinfect the quarters of the well fowls by spraying with distillate or cheap-grade coal oil and sprinkling the floors and about the houses with air-slaked lime. Use some simple remedy like coal oil or permanganate ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... you do, and you're quite right. It is a loathsome idea to think that a man of the type of Sargent is of the same noble profession as the pavement artist. You can only disinfect its loathsomeness in a degree by assuring people that they don't work in the same street. But it always is loathsome in this country to see facts as they really are, and when you know of society women who send ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... myself I was pretty tough," said her mother, with trembling lip. "What sort of a place is it? Could not I-even if you won't let me nurse-be near enough to rest you, and feed you, and disinfect you? That is my trade, Jock will allow, as a doctor's wife and mother. And I could collect things and send them to the sick. Would not ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... hypocrisy, was in need of a stimulus like Bolvar, whose moderation and whose unheard-of abnegation in the full possession of power have rendered ambition hate The example of this great, virtuous man may serve as a general purification, strong enough to disinfect society." ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... not long before Winnie complained of an unpleasant odor in her always thoroughly aired pantry. She stood it for one day, grumbling. The second day she began to talk about "country plumbing" and the third morning she started in to scrub and scour and disinfect vigorously. Her activities led her to the dark corner where Sarah had stowed her chicken and the subsequent interview was brief and to the point. Sarah buried the unfortunate fowl, using the cake turner which she was later to bury also on ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... leaves suddenly to turn black and die and also kills some small branches and produces sores or wounds on large branches and trunk, offers another difficulty. Cut out and burn all affected branches and scrape out all sores. Disinfect all sores with corrosive sublimate solution—1 to 1000—or with a torch, and paint over ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell

... daughter laughed heartlessly. "You do smell strong. But you'll disinfect Bludston, and that will be a good thing." Whereupon she dragged the tearful and redolent damsel from ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... disinfected. The degree of attention necessary depends on the surroundings, the crowded condition of the poultry houses and runs, and the presence of disease in the flock. If disease is present, we can not clean and disinfect the quarters too often. The attendant can not overlook details in handling the incubator or brooder and feeding the chicks ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.



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