elutriating

verb

present participle of elutriate
as in cleaning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elutriating
  1. cleaning
  2. washing
  3. cleansing
  4. purging
  5. decontaminating
  6. refining
  7. rectifying
  8. extracting
Verb
  • The lid for covering food on the grill and the magnetic wall strip for knife and utensil storage lack cleaning.
    — NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Performing basic maintenance and cleaning the system shouldn’t be too difficult.
    — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleaning
Verb
  • Airbnb guests can say goodbye to checkout chores like washing dishes, stripping beds and taking out the trash under a new policy announced this week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • An employee handled dirty utensils and dishes with gloves on and later handled clean dishes with those same gloves without washing hands in between.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of washing
Verb
  • In fact, conditioner helps restore your hair after cleansing.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The Diocletian Ritual, comprising a salt scrub, cleansing mud wrap, and massage, is both invigorating and restorative.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleansing
Verb
  • Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by episodes of bingeing followed by purging.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Esophagus issues, such as acid reflux and GERD, may also develop due to purging.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of purging
Verb
  • The protocol provides details on decontaminating clothing and equipment after caving.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The traditional boundaries between work and life dissolved as workers tried to maintain productivity through economic upheaval, all while decontaminating groceries and managing their children’s online classes.
    — Tess Lawrence, Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2026
Definition of decontaminating
Verb
  • Diffusion language models take a different approach, generating and refining multiple tokens in parallel.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The team revised Rotta’s face and coloring to bring him closer to Jabba while refining his muscular physique.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of refining
Verb
  • Clementine, the oldest daughter, takes control to help break out the other children, and Mary, in telling her story publicly, has agency in rectifying the familial curse.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, the council majority voted to ban the use of firearms in the city, rectifying an apparent oversight in 2011 that removed the prohibition on shooting firearms from a list of weapons that were banned.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of rectifying
Verb
  • In the Johnson administration, that has taken a back seat to extracting cash from those deemed by these redistributionists as having too much of it.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • For supporters, the proposal represents an emergency fiscal response aimed at temporarily extracting revenue from unprecedented concentrations of wealth.
    — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of extracting
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“Elutriating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elutriating. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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