The word "sanitizing" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to the process of making something clean or safe by cleaning with a disinfectant. For example, you might use it in a sentence such as: We are sanitizing the surfaces in the office every day to reduce the spread of germs.
Seemingly generous gestures, such as the donation to "good causes" of £57 million by Shell and £50 million by BP in 2004, for example, are seen as postgame philanthropic strategies aimed at sanitizing the companies' reputations as industrial polluters.
There is something nice, to my Millennial eyes, about the fact that CEC refuses to steamroll over what makes Chuck E. Cheese Chuck E. Cheese, that it has embraced its niche instead of gutting and sanitizing its quirkiness.
He presents Hartman as he was, without diminishing or sanitizing him, giving the world a more nuanced remembrance than much of what's been published about him since 1998.
As the Times reported last year, the Commemoration's "interactive timeline" drew an outcry from historians, sixties-era activists, and veterans, who accused the Pentagon of slanting and sanitizing its account.
How could a public figure like O'Neal succeed in sanitizing the links about him?
Desmond Tutu and eight other Nobel laureates sent a letter to NBC, criticizing the network for glorifying and sanitizing war.
For the next half hour, while doing warmup vocalizing exercises, she set about sanitizing her quarters, wiping the top of her vanity table and all the surfaces around it with paper towels doused in Purell.
There is a growing demand for a program to eradicate the tick with a sanitizing spray.
Employees at the parks' lodges and restaurants have been scrubbing rooms and sanitizing every surface to try to stop the spread of the virus.
"We were able to improve the soundtrack," Mr. Williamson said, "retaining the original sound quality but not sanitizing it to the point where you'd think it was produced this morning.
