antiseptic

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a chemical used for preventing infection in an injury, especially by killing bacteria:

Antiseptic is used to sterilize the skin before giving an injection.

Many of the ingredients for antiseptics come from the rainforests.

completely free from infection:

In the 1870s and 1880s, doctors began to follow the principles of antiseptic surgery.

too clean and showing no imagination and character:

There's an antiseptic feeling to the new town centre, with its covered shopping mall.

a chemical used to prevent infection from an injury, esp. by killing bacteria