abluted

[ uh-bloo-tid ]

adjective

1. (of the hands, body, etc.) thoroughly washed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abluted¹

1640–50; ablute (probably back formation from ablution ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

He sprawled and brawled, left monster tips, flew in his own plane and abluted in a gilded bathtub.

From Los Angeles Times

We went to a shallow stream nearby where she abluted me.

From Literature

He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.

From Project Gutenberg