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Miscellaneous words

This week’s words
parergon
deterge
trangam
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PRONUNCIATION:

(di-TUHRJ)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To wash, wipe, or cleanse.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin detergere (to wipe away), from de- (away from) + tergere (to wipe). Earliest documented use: 1623.

USAGE:

“Sandy was deterging a slip in the washbasin.”
Easterns and Westerns; Glendon Swarthout; Michigan State University Press; 2001.

“I was in the hospital having my lungs deterged for two days.”
Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka; Nature’s End; Crossroad Press; 2016.

See more usage examples of deterge in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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