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say it: SAN-i-tahyz
sanitize is a verb meaning "make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing". It is pronounced /ˈsænɪˌtaɪz/ — SAN-i-tahyz. It carries 2 recorded senses.
make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
“sanitize a document before releasing it to the press”
“sanitize history”
“sanitize the language in a book”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sanitize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.