listerize

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9

Definition of listerize

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (dated, transitive)To make antiseptic.
    “[…] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.”
    “Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.”
    “Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.”

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Etymology

From Lister + -ize.

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