SANITIZED Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

sanitized

verb

past tense of sanitize

as in disinfected

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Black and female military officers have been purged or denied promotion.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Immigration courts are backed up and judges have been purged.

— Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of purged

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The 1930 release included contributions from Warren and Ransom among others who would later distance themselves from a racist and romanticized view of the rural South held by many agrarians.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
War is frequently romanticized at Revolutionary War battlefields.

— Jennifer Janofsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of romanticized

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In these photographs, the maternal body enters spaces designed around seduction, aspiration, and idealized femininity without renouncing any of them.

— Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2026
The report suggests that idealized portrayals of dating on social media may be affecting confidence and expectations, in some cases as much as or more than rejection itself.

— Ethan M. Stone, USA Today, 20 July 2026

Definition of idealized

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Those exhibiting suspicious symptoms had samples taken and sent to a laboratory for analysis, the ministry said on Saturday, adding that the vessel was also decontaminated.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
The wire seals certify a vessel had either been decontaminated and inspected for invasive species or was last launched in the Lake Tahoe basin, agency officials said in a news release.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of decontaminated

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Bluey tells compelling stories of emotional intelligence and regulation in a way that doesn’t feel sugarcoated and is hopeful rather than escapist.

— Miranda Rake, Parents, 19 Feb. 2026
For its part, Housewives has sugarcoated neither Gay’s clashes with the Mormon Church and subsequent estrangement from some friends and family members, nor the painful excommunication of her castmate and cousin Whitney Rose.

— Judy Berman, Time, 12 Nov. 2025

Definition of sugarcoated

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His stunning win in Brooklyn, however, was scrubbed from the record books, and the New York State Athletic Commission issued Garcia a one-year ban.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Countdown Considerations Launch-viewing logistics have to factor in the risk of the launch getting delayed or scrubbed for a variety of hard-to-predict reasons.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of scrubbed

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