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laundered

laundered is the simple past and past participle of launder.

Meaning of launder

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

  1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
  2. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
    • Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  3. To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
  4. (transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.

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Words formed from laundered

Questions about laundered

What is laundered the simple past and past participle of?
Laundered is the simple past and past participle of launder.

Words near laundered in the dictionary

  1. launcing
  2. laund
  3. launder
  4. launderability
  5. launderable
  6. laundered
  7. launderer
  8. launderers
  9. launderess
  10. launderesses
  11. launderette

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