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Yes, sterilize is playable

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"Sterilize" Definition

verb-transitive

Economics To place (gold) in safekeeping so as not to affect the supply of money or credit.
To deprive (a person or an animal) of the ability to produce offspring, as by removing the reproductive organs.
To make free from live bacteria or other microorganisms.
To make incapable of bearing fruit or germinating.
To make inoffensive or innocuous: sterilized the terminology with euphemisms.

verb

to make as.
To cause (land) to become unfruitful.
To deprive of the power of reproducing.
To make incapable of germination.
To make powerless or useless usually by restraining from a normal function, relation, or participation.

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