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antiseptic

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore A words

preventing the growth of disease-causing microorganisms, or so clean as to lack warmth or character

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Antiseptic in a sentence

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The nurse cleaned the wound with an antiseptic solution.

Synonyms
steriledisinfectedhygienicclinical
Antonyms
contaminatedsepticinfected
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Questions about “antiseptic

Antiseptic (adjective) means preventing the growth of disease-causing microorganisms, or so clean as to lack warmth or character
Here is antiseptic used in an example sentence: "The nurse cleaned the wound with an antiseptic solution."
Common synonyms for antiseptic include sterile, disinfected, hygienic, clinical.
Antonyms of antiseptic include contaminated, septic, infected.
Antiseptic is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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