sanitize
Verb
Verb Forms: sanitized, sanitizing, sanitizes
- To clean or sterilize to guard against infection.
- make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
- make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
- "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"
- "sanitize history"
- "sanitize the language in a book"
- To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.
- To make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material.
- 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.
- To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).
- To revise (a document) in order to prevent identification of the sources.
Examples
- He hoped to SANITIZE the board by clearing away the low-scoring tiles.
- Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.
Origin / Etymology
From sanitary. By surface analysis, sanity + -ize.
Scrabble Score: 17
sanitize: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsanitize: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sanitize: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
sanitize: valid Words With Friends Word