Other forms: sanitised, sanitising
To sanitise is to make something clean and free of germs. Sanitise the surfaces, hand sanitiser, a sanitised version.
In food safety it is a defined step: cleaning removes the dirt and sanitising kills what is left, and doing the second without the first achieves very little. Figuratively, a sanitised account is one with everything uncomfortable taken out.
1verbsanitiseTo make something clean and free of germs.
“Please sanitise your hands at the entrance before visiting the patients.”
sanitise is a cleaning.
Also accepted in games: sanitize
sanitize comes from sanitary. By surface analysis, sanity + -ize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Cleaning & Housework