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launder

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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laun=der

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb launder has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

laundern. [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave.].
  •  A washerwoman.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.  [1913 Webster]
launderv. t. 
  •  To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To lave; to wet.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

launder, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 wash and iron (clothes, linen, etc.).
2 colloq. transfer (funds) to conceal a dubious or illegal origin.
--n. a channel for conveying liquids, esp. molten metal.

Derivative
launderer n.
Etymology
ME launder (n.) washer of linen, contr. of lavander f. OF lavandier ult. f. L lavanda things to be washed, neut. pl. gerundive of lavare wash

THESAURUS

launder

baptize, bath, bathe, clean, cleanse, douche, flush, flush out, gargle, holystone, irrigate, lather, lave, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, mop, mop up, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shower, sluice, sluice out, soap, sponge, swab, syringe, toivel, tub, wash, wash out, wash up

ROGET THESAURUS

launder

Cleanness

VB be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.

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