lustrated

verb

past tense of lustrate
as in purified

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  1. purified
  2. cleansed
  3. chastened
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  • And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of purified
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  • 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
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  • Perhaps my sisters would say that my sojourn in Kansas and Missouri, and then all the way to Massachusetts to visit my dead husband’s family, chastened me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • By now too many of us are wary of what’s being sold — sensitized by two years of deepfakes and soft slop, chastened by two decades of social media and rage-farming.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
Definition of chastened
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“Lustrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrated. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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