Antonyms for disinfectant
ˌdɪs ɪnˈfɛk təntdis·in·fec·tant

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1. disinfectant, germicide, antimicrobic, antimicrobialadjective

   an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

   Antonyms:
   septic, infected

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobial, germicide, antimicrobic

2. bactericidal, disinfectant, germicidaladjective

   preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms

   Antonyms:
   infected, septic

   Synonyms:
   bactericidal, germicidal

How to use disinfectant in a sentence?

1. Anita Kozyrskyj:

   The Results suggest that gut microbiota were the culprit in the association between disinfectant use and the overweight.

2. James Scott:

   Rubbing alcohol has long been used in medicine as a disinfectant for skin surfaces and environmental surfaces, it has been generally thought that rubbing alcohol was fairly safe from the emergence of resistance amid susceptible germs. This interesting and carefully done study refutes that assumption.

3. Virginia Tech:

   The triggering event was very clearly the use of Flint River water without any corrosion control, had the corrosion control been in the water, disinfectant would have been higher, iron would have been lower, probably the outbreak would not have occurred.

4. The President:

   Then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning ? because President Donald Trump see it gets on the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs.

5. Virginia Tech:

   What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously.

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