as in brushes
to use a vacuum cleaner on (something) in order to remove dirt
I vacuumed the living room.
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Recent Examples of vacuums
The structure floods the retina with sugar to fuel its anaerobic engine and rapidly vacuums out lactate waste, preventing the build-up of toxic byproducts in the bloodless eye.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
Liposuction entails surgically inserting a probe that vacuums out not only body fat, but also fat storage cells.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
Liposuction entails surgically inserting a probe that vacuums out not only body fat, but also fat storage cells.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuums
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See how his head brushes the sky.—
Roey Leonardi,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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Elizabeth Scott brushes off the comparison.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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Dish soap cleans more thoroughly in warm or hot water; to use less while washing dishes.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
17 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, Moshe Friedman, a local rabbi, filed a police complaint against six mohels who practice metzitzah b’peh, a custom in which the circumciser cleans the circumcision wound with oral suction.—
Philissa Cramer,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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In just one week, a spectacular display of orbital mechanics will be visible to billions of people across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, as Earth's shadow sweeps across the lunar disk, triggering the onset of an awe-inspiring 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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In a 2023 city comptroller audit, out of 2,308 people caught in Mayor Adams’ homeless sweeps the previous year, only 90 people stayed in shelter for more than a single day.—
Deborah Berkman,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
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If one person always scrubs toilet bowl rings, resentment can build, so try to get ahead of that.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Feb. 2026
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Precipitation scrubs the atmosphere clean, picking up pollutants on its way down to the ground.—
Isabel Lopez,
Parents,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Vacuums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuums. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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