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deterged

verb

past tense of deterge
as in cleaned
to remove the dirt from deterge the surface using an industrial-strength commercial soap

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deterged
  1. cleaned
  2. turned out
Verb
  • Fleck cleaned himself up, but had remnants of blood stains on his right white sleeve during postgame.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The bathroom on the third floor wasn’t getting cleaned because the cleaning supplies were distributed across the basement, first, and second floors.
    — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • What was initially diagnosed as a Grade 1 ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) sprain turned out to be much worse for the now 29-year-old reliever.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Upon closer examination, beats like the ones that Fleming’s team described turned out to reflect not quantum coherence, but a resonance between wiggling molecular bonds.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of turned out
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“Deterged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deterged. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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