Word Meanings - DETERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.

Related words: (words related to DETERSION)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• DETERGENT
  Cleansing; purging. -- n.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• DETERGE
  To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• DETERGENCY
  A cleansing quality or power. De Foe.
• UNCLEANSABLE
  Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.