disinfect
verb🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekt/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disinfect | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekt/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekt/ |
| he / she / it disinfects | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekts/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfekts/ |
| past simple disinfected | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪd/ |
| past participle disinfected | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪd/ |
| -ing form disinfecting | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈfektɪŋ/ |
- 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’.