Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bacterize

1 sense of bacterize

Sense 1
bacterize, bacterise -- (subject to the action of bacteria)
       => subject -- (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation")