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  • 31sponge — Synonyms and related words: Ace bandage, Band Aid, Finnish bath, India rubber, Japanese bath, Loch Ness monster, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, ablution, absorb, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adhesive tape, adsorb, adsorbent,… …

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  • 32sponging — Synonyms and related words: abject, ablution, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, apple polishing, ass kissing, assimilation, backscratching, beggarly, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bone lazy, bootlicking, brown nosing …

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  • 33wash — Synonyms and related words: ablution, abstergent, acrylic painting, apply paint, aquarelle, babble, backwash, baptize, bath, bathe, baygall, be consistent, be the case, be true, be truthful, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bog, bottom,… …

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  • 34washing — Synonyms and related words: ablution, bear raid, bull raid, cleaning out, corner, corner in, douche, douching, elution, elutriation, enema, flush, flushing, flushing out, irrigation, lap, lapping, lathering, laundering, laundry, lavabo, lavage,… …

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  • 35washout — Synonyms and related words: ablution, airmanship, alluvion, alluvium, also ran, bankrupt, bollix, bomb, botch, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brief, briefing, bungle, bust, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave in, cleaning out, collapse, crack up …

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  • 36cleanness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Freedom from dirt Nouns 1. cleanness, cleanliness, purity, spotlessness; purification, circumcision; purgation, lustration, ablution; cleansing, wash[ing], lavation; laundering, dry cleaning; sanitation …

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  • 37purification — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Cleansing] Syn. purifying, ablution, lustration, purgation, catharsis, refinement, laving, washing, bathing, lavation, disinfection; see also cleaning . Ant. pollution*, defilement, contamination. 2. [Absolution] Syn.… …

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  • 38Cleanness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Cleanness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cleanness cleanness cleanliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 purity purity Sgm: N 1 cleaning cleaning &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 purification purification defecation …

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  • 39lavational — adj. of lavation, of washing …

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  • 40lave — [leɪv] verb literary wash or wash over. Derivatives lavation noun Origin OE lafian, from L. lavare to wash ; reinforced in ME by OFr. laver …

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