decontaminate
dee kuhn ta muh nayt
- v rid of contamination
The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city
- Haz-mat teams from coast to coast were being called out two and three times a day to decontaminate buildings because someone worried about powder in a package.
- The military version, called NanoDefend, is a liquid designed to decontaminate clothing and surfaces that have come into contact with anthrax, Ebola or smallpox.
- Powered by two AA batteries, the cordless Steri-Pen uses ultraviolet light to decontaminate a 16-oz.