Antimicrobial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms: antimicrobial drugs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes
  • adj. inhibiting the growth of microbes
  • adj. preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes
  • n. an agent that destroys microbes, inhibits their growth, or prevents or counteracts their pathogenic action
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
  • n. an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease
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