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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
deterge is a verb meaning "wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body". It carries one recorded sense.
wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body
“This drug is powerful enough to deterge”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deterge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.