sanitize

tr.v., -tized, -tiz·ing, -tiz·es.

1. To make sanitary, as by cleaning or disinfecting.
2. To make more acceptable by removing unpleasant or offensive features from: sanitized the language in adapting the novel for television.

sanitization san'i·ti·za'tion (-tĭ-zā'shən) n.

To remove sensitive data from an information system, a database or an extract from a database. See sensitive.

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verb

To render free of microorganisms: decontaminate, disinfect, sterilize. See clean/dirty.

v.to revise a report or other document in such a fashion as to prevent identification of sources, or of the actual persons and places with which it is concerned, or of the means by which it was acquired. Sanitizing usually involves the deletion or substitution of names and other key details.

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The process of making or the quality of being made sanitary.

(DOD) To revise a report or other document in such a fashion as to prevent identification of sources, or of the actual persons and places with which it is concerned, or of the means by which it was acquired. Usually involves deletion or substitution of names and other key details.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - sterilisere, sanere

Nederlands (Dutch)
zuiveren, opschonen

Français (French)
v. tr. - (lit) assainir, désinfecter, (fig) assainir, expurger

Deutsch (German)
v. - keimfrei machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - εξυγιαίνω, αποστειρώνω, περικόπτω απόρρητες πληροφορίες

Italiano (Italian)
disinfettare, (fig.) ripulire

Português (Portuguese)
v. - higienizar

Русский (Russian)
создавать или улучшать санитарные условия, оздоровлять, подвергать санобработке, проводить водопровод и канализацию, вымарывать, исключать не подлежащую оглашению информацию, придавать благопристойность

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - hacer sanitario

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sanera, sterilisera

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
对...作卫生处理, 给...消毒

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 對...作衛生處理, 給...消毒

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 위생적으로 만들다, (책, 연극 등에서) 부적당한 곳을 제거하다, 무해하게 하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 衛生的にする, きれいにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يجعله صحيا بالتنظيف أو ألتعقيم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חיטא, עשה להיגייני‬

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