Sanitize

Many municipalities have reduced chlorination and now also use ultraviolet light to sanitize the public supply of drinking water.

The government struggled to distribute food to those affected and sanitize the flooded parts of the capital, Jakarta.

Posters and signs remind customers at stores and public spaces about the need to maintain social distancing, wear protective masks and sanitize one’s hands.

If you've been cutting raw meat, sanitize the cutting board with a disinfectant.

Wash your kitchen towels with hot water to sanitize them.

They sanitize the office regularly.

Do you sanitize your hands often?

Near-synonym: bowdlerize

And yet for all that, the filmmakers were in fact trying to sanitize Mitchell’s novel.

Both caricatures are appropriately mean, but if the show is going to continue using them, it needs to take care not to sanitize the real people, as it has done with dangerously incompetent and malicious figures in the past, such as George W Bush or Trump himself.