elutriated

verb

past tense of elutriate
as in cleaned

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for elutriated
  1. cleaned
  2. washed
  3. refined
  4. extracted
  5. purged
  6. cleansed
  7. processed
  8. decontaminated
Verb
  • Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaned
Verb
  • Dozens of homes were washed from foundations, bridges were damaged and about 13,200 customers on the Big Island remained without power Thursday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hands should get washed after coughing, sneezing or blowing the nose.
    — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of washed
Verb
  • Prologis said the numbers were refined as key details were worked out.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hybrid tech has been around for decades, and some automakers have refined their hybrid nameplates over the years, mastering the balance between affordability and efficiency for consumers.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of refined
Verb
  • Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Like gallium, germanium is generally recovered as a by-product rather than extracted from dedicated mines.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracted
Verb
  • Xi has purged or expelled most of the seven-member Central Military Commission, leaving just him and one other member.
    — Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Even when Putin purged Russia’s defense ministry for corruption, including much of Shoigu’s own personal network, Putin transferred Shoigu to a weighty role in the Security Council rather than disempower him.
    — Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of purged
Verb
  • What lies before us is not a world cleansed of fraud, but a world in which the speed of both deception and defense keeps rising, so that the responsibility shared between institutions and individuals grows more important.
    — Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The Beneš Decrees that ethnically cleansed tens of thousands of Hungarians from southern Slovakia after the war are still affecting contemporary Slovak-Hungarian relations today.
    — Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 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
Verb
  • 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
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

elutriate
elutriated
elutriates
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Elutriated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elutriated. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of august

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

How to Pronounce the Trickiest Menu Items

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Do you 'say your piece' or 'say your peace'?

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Words from the 'Odyssey'

The Longest Long Words List

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Words of the Week - Aug. 21

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

Words from the 'Odyssey'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
alt-684346df967d5
Add A Letter Quiz Pick the letter that goes in the same spot in fou...
See All