sanitize
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsænətaɪz/, /ˈsænɪtaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
sanitize (third-person singular simple present sanitizes, present participle sanitizing, simple past and past participle sanitized)
- (transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.
- (transitive, by extension) To make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material.
- Near-synonym: bowdlerize
- 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- And yet for all that, the filmmakers were in fact trying to sanitize Mitchell’s novel.
- (transitive, computing) To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the receiving system.
- Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.
- (transitive, computing) To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).
- (transitive) To revise (a document) in order to prevent identification of the sources.
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Translations
to free from microorganisms
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to bowdlerize
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