Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Thoroughly washed clean.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ablute .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Elah then returned to the sink and poured the last remaining drops into the sink, touched plastic-tipped fingers to it and abluted the smooth surface of his face, muttering a few words of prayer as he did so.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
Ulysses 2003
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He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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After honing the double act with our lovely hotel receptionist (got a great room overlooking the pool and volleyball area), we registered, abluted, and hied our sorry arses to the boardwalk.
Ben Poole 2010
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Of her friendship with Ivana Trump she said they "were both elegant women of a certain age" who both "got up at 6am and abluted for a long time".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Of her friendship with Ivana Trump she said they "were both elegant women of a certain age" who both "got up at 6am and abluted for a long time".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Of her friendship with Ivana Trump she said they "were both elegant women of a certain age" who both "got up at 6am and abluted for a long time".
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Bathe her - her body must be clean and abluted - and then read the soura (Quranic verse) of al-Momenoon once. "
WBAY Action 2 News 2010
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