Disinfect /(?)/

Dis·in·fect

Disinfect

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinfecting

  1. 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.