Deterge: alternatives and connections

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrile…

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water…

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also h…

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.

To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a…

an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behav…

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physi…

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's pi…

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual cri…

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

To purge away.

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid…