Chapter Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Fumigation, ventilation, disinfection; disinfectant.

Scavenger; brush, broom, besom, vacuum-cleaner, duster, mop, sieve, riddle, screen, filter.

(Verbs). To be clean, etc.

To render clean, etc., to clean, to mundify, cleanse, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush, sweep, dust, brush up.

To wash, lave, sluice, buck, absterge, deterge, clear, purify, depurate, defecate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, rack, filter, filtrate, fine, fine down.

To disinfect, deodorise, fumigate, ventilate, purge, expurgate, bowdlerise, emasculate, castrate.

To sift, winnow, pick, weed.

(Adjectives). Clean, pure, spotless, unspotted, immaculate, unstained, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied, taintless, untainted, uninfected.

Cleansing, etc., detergent, detersive, abstersive, abstergent, purgatory, purificatory, etc., abluent, antiseptic.

Spruce, tidy, washed, swept, etc., cleaned, purified, etc.

(Phrases). Clean as a whistle; clean as a new penny; like a cat in pattens.

• Uncleanness (Substantives), immundicity, uncleanliness, soilure, sordidness, foulness, impurity 961, pollution, nastiness, offensiveness, beastliness, muckiness, defilement, contamination, abomination, taint, tainture, corruption, decomposition 49.

Slovenliness, slovenry, untidiness, sluttishness, coarseness, grossness, dregginess, squalor.

Dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, raff, sordes, mess, muck.

Dregs, grounds, sediment, lees, settlement, dross, drossiness, precipitate, scoriè, slag, scum, sweepings, off-scourings, caput mortuum, residuum, draff, fur, scurf, scurfiness, furfur, dandruff, riff-raff, vermin.

Mud, mire, quagmire, slough, sludge, alluvium, silt, slime, spawn, offal, fèces, excrement; ordure, dung, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, midden, bog, laystall, sink, cesspool, sough, cloaca, latrine, privy, sewer; hogwash, bilge-water.

Sty, pigsty, dusthole, lair, den.

Rottenness, corruption, decomposition, decay, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, purulence, feculence, rankness, rancidity, mouldiness, mustiness, mucidness, mould, mother, must, mildew, dry-rot, fetor 401.

Scatology, coprology.

(Phrases). A sink of corruption; an Augean stable.

(Verbs). To be unclean, dirty, etc., to rot, putrefy, corrupt, decompose, go bad, mould, moulder, fester, etc.

To render unclean, etc., to dirt, dirty, soil, begrime, smear, besmear, mess, smirch, besmirch, bemire, spatter, bespatter, splash, bedaggle, bedraggle, daub, bedaub, slobber, beslobber, beslime, to cover with dust, etc.

To foul, befoul, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, corrupt, deflower, rot, etc.