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  1. 1. a. Alt. of Antiseptical Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms Source: wordnet
  4. 4. adj. clean and honest Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. freeing from error or corruption Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. devoid of objectionable language Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues Source: wordnet
  8. 8. Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds. A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona. Source: webster
  9. 9. A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, ordestroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt,carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona. Source: adambom
  10. 10. j:100 n. a substance that destroys organisms">micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues a. thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms s. clean and honest s. freeing from error or corruption Source: ecdict

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