Washing synonyms
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dirty clothes
The definition of laundry is a group of clothes or linens that are being washed, or a place where clothing and other fabrics are washed or cleaned.
soiled clothes
wash (related)
A quantity of articles washed or intended for washing:
The water used for cleansing the body:
bathing
The act of taking a bath.
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The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
detersion
The act of deterging or cleansing.
fomentation
A lotion, compress, etc. so applied
The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
The ceremonial washing of the hands and recitation from the Psalms by the celebrant before the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
lavation
The act of washing; esp., lavage
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lavement
A clyster.
The act by which something is laved or washed.
The liquid in or with which anything has been rinsed
The act or an instance of making or becoming soaked
(Informal) Entirely; wholly:
deterge
To cleanse (a wound, etc.)
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To wet thoroughly; drench.
elutriate
To purify, separate, or remove (ore, for example) by washing, decanting, and settling.
eluviate
To undergo eluviation.
To eat into; corrode:
To supply (land or crops) with water by means of pipes, sprinklers, ditches, or streams.
To empty; drain:
mundify
(Obsolete) To cleanse.
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garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
To deaden, restrain, or depress:
To make or become moist.
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To cause to move with a twisting or whirling motion:
To splash or move clumsily through water, mud, etc.
To bathe under a shower
To clean things by vigorous rubbing and polishing
To be carried in a flow
To rid of impurities:
To treat with warm water, medicated lotions, etc.
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(Now Rare) To cover (land) with water; flood
To cover with drifts
To wet through and through; soak.
To overlay or spread with something:
To cover as a coat.
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully:
A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. &diamf3; Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood .
To touch or grasp by stretching out or extending:
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
To grow worse; degenerate:
To do away with; eliminate:
To wear a sailing vessel
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To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
To paint coarsely or unskillfully
To spoil the appearance of by patches or streaks of color or dirt; discolor; spot
To color with or as with a dye
To misrepresent, especially by distortion or exaggeration:
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To paint or coat with whitewash.
To cover or decorate with paint; color
To clean with a swab.
To cook or clean by boiling.
To scoop up by plunging the hand or a receptacle below the surface, as of a liquid; ladle:
To clean or dry in this manner
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To baptize by submerging in water.
Shine is to reflect light, or to polish, or to stand out due to excellence.
To stop the movement or progress of:
To strike, move, or wash with a splashing sound.
To move with splashes
To bubble; gurgle.
To become active or intense enough to come into prominence:
To lap or splash against.
dirtying (antonym)
To dirty is to cause something to become unclean or impure.
smirching (antonym)
To soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent:
convincing (related)
To persuade.
moving (related)
To stir the emotions:
dry (related)
To become dry:
washing-up (related)
dishwash (related)
drying (related)
descale (related)
pre-wash (related)
shaving (related)
dishwashing (related)
ablutionary
Pertaining to ablution. [From the mid 19th century.]
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