sanitize

verb

1 the best way to sanitize a chiller is to let boiling water flow through it:

sterilize, disinfect, clean, cleanse, cauterize, purify, fumigate, pasteurize, decontaminate;

technical autoclave;

rare depollute.

2 sometimes she would depart from her official schedule and visit some village that had not been sanitized in advance:

make presentable, make acceptable, make palatable, clean up;

purge, expurgate, bowdlerize, censor, redact, emasculate, blue-pencil, water down.