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I washed the wound and then used alcohol as an antiseptic.antiseptic = a substance used to clean wounds because it prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
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The nurse always wipes the skin with an antiseptic swab before administering a shot.
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The air smells of something sharp and antiseptic. (source)antiseptic = a chemical that kills micro-organisms
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I look away as Eric wipes my neck with an antiseptic wipe and eases the needle into my skin. (source)
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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
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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
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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
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The air was moist and antiseptically cold against her face.† (source)
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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
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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
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To die antiseptically in a hospital was almost unknown.† (source)
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Rufe, have you got any kind of antiseptic? (source)antiseptic = chemical that kills micro-organisms
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Stethoscopes and needles and antiseptics.† (source)antiseptics = chemicals used to clean wounds because they prevent infection by killing harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria
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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)
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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.
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antiseptic = unnatural
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