All lavation synonyms

noun lavation

• washing — the act or process of washing with water or other liquid: to give the car a wash.
• cleansing — serving or intended to cleanse
• cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
• distillation — the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
• laundry — articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.
• soaking — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
• bath — A bath is a container, usually a long rectangular one, which you fill with water and sit in while you wash your body.
• purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
• shower — a person or thing that shows.
• decontamination — to make (an object or area) safe for unprotected personnel by removing, neutralizing, or destroying any harmful substance, as radioactive material or poisonous gas.
• cleansing — serving or intended to cleanse
• regeneration — act of regenerating; state of being regenerated.
• purgation — the act of purging.
• absolution — If someone is given absolution, they are forgiven for something wrong that they have done.
• atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
• forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
• grace — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
• rebirth — a new or second birth: the rebirth of the soul.
• washing — the act or process of washing with water or other liquid: to give the car a wash.
• redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
• refinement — fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners, language, etc.
• ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
• purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
• catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
• baptism — A baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is baptized. Compare christening.
• salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
• bathing — swimming
• rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
• sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
• unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
• disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
• maundy — the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
• rinsing — an act or instance of rinsing.
• lavage — a washing.
• fomentation — encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
• lavabo — Ecclesiastical. the ritual washing of the celebrant's hands after the offertory in the Mass, accompanied in the Roman rite by the recitation of Psalm 26:6–12. the passage recited. the small towel or the basin used.
• freeing — Present participle of free.
• expiation — The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
• expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
• depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
• laundering — Present participle of launder.
• abstersion — the act of wiping clean or cleansing
• detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
• lavement — A washing or bathing.
• lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
• depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
• laving — to wash; bathe.