\Dis`in*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disinfected}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Disinfecting}.]
To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy
putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
      When the infectious matter and the infectious matter
      and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to
      deodorize is to disinfect.               --Ure.