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antiseptic
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  • I look away as Eric wipes my neck with an antiseptic wipe and eases the needle into my skin.  (source)
  • A first-aid kit with bandages and tubes of antiseptic paste and small scissors.  (source)
    antiseptic = a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
  • Hortensia and Josefina scrubbed the little cabin until it was almost antiseptic.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms
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  • I hadn't been back there [the hospital] since I'd taken Shawn years before, and as I walked down its white, antiseptic hallway, it was difficult not to think of him.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms
  • We provide antiseptics and cotton and a place for the children to cry and nurse their wounds.  (source)
    antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they kill germs
  • The air was moist and antiseptically cold against her face.†  (source)
  • I could hear the two men murmuring and laughing over the buzz of the tattooing needle, the smell of antiseptic sharp in my nostrils.  (source)
    antiseptic = a chemical that kills micro-organisms
  • Even under the smells of antiseptics and alcohol, she could smell the grassy smell of his skin.†  (source)
    antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they prevent infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
  • To die antiseptically in a hospital was almost unknown.†  (source)
  • Rufe, have you got any kind of antiseptic?  (source)
    antiseptic = chemical that kills micro-organisms
  • Stethoscopes and needles and antiseptics.†  (source)
    antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they prevent infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
  • In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient — a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete — was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.  (source)
    antiseptic = thoroughly clean and free of micro-organisms (also suggesting a man-made rather than a natural or organic environment)
  • The ...nematode can be killed with any number of antiseptics, correct, Brigadier?†  (source)
    antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they prevent infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
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You shouldn't be in this antiseptic joint.  (source)
antiseptic = unnatural
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