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v. To make sanitary, as by cleaning or disinfecting.

v. To make more acceptable by removing unpleasant or offensive features from: sanitized the language in adapting the novel for television.

v. to partially free something of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting

v. (by extension) to make something, such as a dramatic work, more acceptable by removing potentially offensive material

v. (computing) to remove sensitive or personal data from a database or file before giving the public access to it

v. to revise a document in order to prevent identification of the sources

v. make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features

v. make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing

"Hollywood needed to "sanitize" the movie from gay issues in order for the movie to be more accepted by bigger audiences and therefore bring more revenue, and the writer of the novel/book who is gay in real life sold the story and allowed the changes FOR MONEY."

sanitized    sanitizes    sanitizing   

change    modify    alter    clean    make clean   

sanitizer