Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cleansing, as a sore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
deterging orcleansing .
Etymologies
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Compare French détersion. See deterge.
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