Usually means: Cleanse or wipe away thoroughly.
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  2. absterge: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. absterge: Wiktionary
  5. absterge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  8. absterge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Absterge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. absterge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. absterge: FreeDictionary.org
  12. absterge: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. Absterge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. absterge: Merriam-Webster

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▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic, now rare) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away.

Similar:
absterse, wipe, wipe off, wipe away, expurge, abstrude, abate, offscour, expunge, abate of, more...

Opposite:
dirty, soil, stain, contaminate, pollute

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Similar:
absterse, wipe, wipe off, wipe away, expurge, abstrude, abate, offscour, expunge, abate of, more...

Opposite:
dirty, soil, stain, contaminate, pollute



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