puhdistus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cleaning noun The process or activity of removing dirt and mess from something.
- cleanup noun The act of tidying up or clearing away mess, often after a specific event.
- clearance noun Official permission to proceed, access something, or travel.
- decontamination noun The process of removing harmful or dangerous substances from a person, place, or object.
- purge verb To rid something of unwanted elements; to cleanse or clear out completely.
- refinement noun A small improvement or adjustment that makes something better.
Senses
puhdistus is used for these senses in English:
- cleaning (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
- cleanup The act of cleaning or tidying something; the act of finishing something off.
- clearance (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
- decontamination The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.
- lustration (politics, law) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
- purge A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- purge An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- refinement The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material