elutriated

verb

past tense of elutriate
as in cleaned

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  1. cleaned
  2. washed
  3. refined
  4. extracted
  5. purged
  6. cleansed
  7. processed
  8. decontaminated
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  • The apartments Svetlana cleaned belonged to people in their thirties who didn’t seem to leave the house much—there was trash from Amazon and Uber Eats everywhere.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Some blankets can only be spot-cleaned, while others have removable, washable covers that can be laundered with everything else.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • The Democratic wave that flipped control of Congress from Republicans on Election Day also washed through to the state and local level, with several legislatures seeing historic changes in their balance of power.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The intense erosion that carved the Great Unconformity washed rock material into the oceans, possibly fertilizing them just before the Cambrian explosion, when calcium became abundant in seawater.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of washed
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  • The Iran war has raised oil prices, pushing up prices for fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, which are refined from crude oil, economists said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Across 128 sessions, Claude gradually developed and refined a wiki using information from those documents.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of refined
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  • The United States is slow-walking a democratic process that should have started in January, the day after an American military operation extracted dictator Nicolás Maduro.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Each active from the farm is custom-extracted with low temperatures through a biotech partner.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of extracted
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  • Xi had earlier purged two of China’s top generals, leaving Zhang as the commission’s only member besides Xi himself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Emphasis on the enough, especially after a dismal 2025 season that perhaps was further purged Sunday.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of purged
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  • At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth felt her baby leap in her womb, which signified that John had become sanctified and cleansed of original sin, as if by baptism, according to Catholic doctrine.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Going winless for an entire season — rebuild or not — would produce a level of shame that doesn’t get cleansed from your resume.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleansed
Verb
  • These ballots will be processed and counted after the county elections office has completed the voter registration process.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Definition of processed
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  • Those exhibiting suspicious symptoms had samples taken and sent to a laboratory for analysis, the ministry said on Saturday, adding that the vessel was also decontaminated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The wire seals certify a vessel had either been decontaminated and inspected for invasive species or was last launched in the Lake Tahoe basin, agency officials said in a news release.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of decontaminated
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