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Meaning of antiseptic

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  antiseptic
      adj 1: thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-
             causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats";
             "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that
             marjoram has antiseptic qualities" [ant: {infected},
             {septic}]
      2: clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
      3: freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of
         sturdy criticism"
      4: devoid of objectionable language; "lyrics as antiseptic as
         Sunday School"
      n 1: a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry
           disease without harming body tissues

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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