'Disinfecting' definitions:
Definition of 'Disinfecting'
From: GCIDE
- Disinfect \Dis`in*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinfecting.] To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. [1913 Webster]
- When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. --Ure. [1913 Webster]