Synonyms of laundering

laundering

verb

present participle of launder

as in censoring

to remove objectionable parts from

had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper

Synonyms & Similar Words

• censoring
• shortening
• editing
• deleting
• reviewing
• purging
• expurgating
• cleansing
• cleaning (up)
• bowdlerizing
• cutting (out)
• purifying
• red-penciling
• examining
• suppressing
• expunging
• gutting
• abbreviating
• screening
• repressing
• excising
• scrutinizing
• silencing
• blue-penciling
• condemning
• denouncing
• bleeping
• blipping
• censuring
• blacking out
• x-ing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• authorizing
• approving
• sanctioning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of laundering

It's known for staging fake videos with actors and laundering their claims through influencer accounts with large followings. — Shannon Bond, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

Her subsequent money-laundering conviction provided the basis for challenging the truthfulness of those earlier statements. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

For starters, the 46-year-old billionaire was confined to house arrest on his 300-acre Oxfordshire estate in England, fighting off a Swiss extradition request tied to an international money-laundering probe. — Cate Brown, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026

Just this week, Bloomberg reported that two manufacturers formerly on FDA's Green List had been laundering product from other sources, had been contaminated with black mold and bugs, and had been destroying records. — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

More than $1 billion of the unreported activity involved national security and other high-priority risks, including Chinese money-laundering networks and activity tied to the southwest border, Treasury said in a press release. — Lee Ying Shan,sarah Min, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

As these dopamine chasers inflict their limbic systems on every film, cheering for lizard-brain human suffering, the Olds scramble to give all that bloodlust a higher purpose, laundering it into political statements right there in the Q&A. — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

The Financial Action Task Force, the global money-laundering watchdog, has warned that criminals exploit citizenship and residency programs to conceal their identities, launder illicit wealth and evade justice. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026