disinfect
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disinfect | |
| he / she / it disinfects | |
| past simple disinfected | |
| past participle disinfected | |
| -ing form disinfecting |
- disinfect something
to clean something using a substance that kills bacteria 给…消毒 to disinfect a surface/room/wound 给表面／房间／伤口消毒
- disinfect something
to run a computer program to get rid of a computer virus 查杀（计算机）病毒； 扫除（电脑）病毒
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘rid of infection’): from French désinfecter, from dés- (expressing reversal) + infecter ‘to infect’.