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Definition: Deterge |
DetergeVerb1. Wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body; "This drug is powerful enough to deterge". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Deterge \De*terge"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deterged; present participle verb or noun Deterging.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deterge |
| English words defined with "deterge": Deterged, Deterging. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "deterge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear up, defecate, depurate, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очиствам (break, chastise, clean, cleanse, clear, depurate, do in, flick, polish off, pop off, purge, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out, wipe out). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megtisztít (to clean up, to mop up, to top and tail). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etergeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dissuadir (deter, discourage, dissuade, put off), detergir. (various references) | |
Russian | очищать (cleanse). (various references) | |
Spanish | depurar (bowdlerize, debug, depurate, purge, purify, scrub). (various references) | |
Swedish | rengöra (clean, cleanse, scavenge). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очищати (alcoholize, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, defecate, depurate, fine, outwash, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scale, weed), зчищати (brush away, brush off, clean down, scrape off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deterge": deterged, detergencies, detergency, detergent, detergents, deterger, detergers, deterges. (additional references) | |
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"Deterge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'energie, deterre, detree, deverge, Devergie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: greeted. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-r-t" | |
-1 letter: degree. | |
-2 letters: deter, edger, egret, greed, greet, treed. | |
-3 letters: deer, deet, dere, dree, dreg, edge, eger, geed, gree, rede, reed, rete, teed, tree. | |
-4 letters: dee, ere, erg, ged, gee, get, red, ree, reg, ret, ted, tee, teg. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-g-r-t" | |
+1 letter: deterged, deterger, deterges, gettered. | |
+2 letters: budgeteer, detergent, detergers, gadgeteer, generated, greatened, greediest, regelated, regreeted, regretted, relegated. | |
+3 letters: budgeteers, degenerate, deregulate, detergency, detergents, gadgeteers, redigested, regathered, regimented, registered, retargeted, segregated, teethridge. | |
+4 letters: decentering, degenerated, degenerates, derangement, deregulated, deregulates, desegregate, exaggerated, featheredge, geometrised, geometrized, predigested, redefeating, redefecting, regenerated, reregulated, retightened, revegetated, teethridges, telegrammed, telegraphed, tragedienne. | |
+5 letters: decelerating, decrementing, degenerately, degenerating, degeneration, degenerative, demagnetizer, derangements, desegregated, desegregates, detergencies, disagreement, endangerment, enregistered, featheredged, featheredges, foregathered, greathearted, largehearted, methysergide, outgeneraled, overweighted, peregrinated, predesignate, reaggregated, redintegrate, refrigerated, reintegrated, renegotiated, reregistered, resegregated, retrogressed, strengthened, tragediennes, unregistered, unsegregated. | |
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