laundering

The word “laundering” has 3 syllables: laun-der-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈlɔːndərɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for laundering?

In the thesaurus, “laundering” has 67 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for laundering along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for laundering

  • abbreviating
  • ablution
  • abstersion
  • administration
  • bath
  • bathe
  • bathing
  • bed-making
  • blacking out
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • censoring
  • censuring
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • condemning
  • cooking
  • deleting
  • denouncing
  • detersion
  • dirty clothes
  • domestic art
  • domestic science
  • dusting
  • editing
  • examining
  • excising
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • fomentation
  • gutting
  • home economics
  • homemaking
  • housecraft
  • housekeeping
  • ironing
  • laundry
  • lavabo
  • lavage
  • lavation
  • lavement
  • laving
  • management
  • maundy
  • mopping
  • purging
  • purifying
  • red-penciling
  • repressing
  • reviewing
  • rinse
  • rinsing
  • screening
  • scrub
  • scrutinizing
  • sewing
  • shampoo
  • shortening
  • shower
  • silencing
  • soaking
  • stewardship
  • suppressing
  • sweeping
  • washing

Antonyms for laundering

Meanings of laundering

  • verb
    1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
    2. To lave; to wet.
    3. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
  • noun
    1. The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

Example Sentences

  • The authorities are investigating the company for potential money laundering activities.
  • He was arrested for laundering the funds through a series of shell companies.
  • The police have cracked down on illegal laundering operations in the city.
  • She was accused of laundering the stolen goods through her business.
  • The organization implements strict measures to prevent laundering of illicit funds.

On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to laundering, such as: abbreviating, ablution, abstersion, administration, approving, authorizing, bath.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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vacuuming

  • brightening
  • brushing
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • combing
  • decontaminating
  • deodorizing
  • deterging
  • disinfecting
  • dry-cleaning
  • dusting
  • freshening
  • laundering
  • mopping
  • picking up
  • purging
  • purifying
  • rinsing
  • sanitizing
  • scouring
  • scrubbing
  • shampooing
  • sponging
  • swabbing
  • sweeping
  • sweetening
  • tidying
  • turning out
  • uncluttering
  • washing
  • wiping

killing

  • abbreviating
  • alluring
  • amusing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • antic
  • arduous
  • arresting
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • beckoning
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • blackballing
  • blacking out
  • blacklisting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blithesome
  • bloodbath
  • bloodletting
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blue-penciling
  • bottom line
  • bowdlerizing
  • braking
  • breaking
  • bump off
  • bumping off
  • burdensome
  • burning out
  • busting
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • campy
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • capital punishment
  • captivating
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • charming
  • chocking
  • chucklesome
  • claiming
  • cleanup
  • clipping
  • clownish
  • comedic
  • comic
  • comical
  • compensation
  • courting
  • croaking
  • cropping
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • cutting off
  • deactivating
  • death
  • debilitating
  • decimating
  • decimation
  • declining
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • delighting
  • demanding
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastation
  • difficult
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disarming
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dispatching
  • diverting
  • doing away with
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • downing
  • draining
  • drawing
  • drawing up
  • droll
  • earnings
  • effacing
  • eliding
  • emolument
  • enchanting
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • excising
  • executing
  • execution
  • exhausting
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • extermination
  • facetious
  • fagging
  • farcical
  • fascinating
  • fatiguing
  • felling
  • finishing
  • flip
  • flippant
  • formidable
  • foul play
  • frazzling
  • funny
  • gain
  • genocide
  • getting
  • gleeful
  • gratifying
  • gross
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • halting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • herculean
  • hilarious
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • humoristic
  • humorous
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icing
  • income
  • interest
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • jamming
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • joky
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • killing off
  • knockabout
  • knocking off
  • knocking out
  • laborious
  • laughable
  • laughing
  • laundering
  • lucre
  • ludicrous
  • luring
  • mad
  • magnetizing
  • making away with
  • manslaughter
  • martyring
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mortality
  • mothballing
  • mowing
  • murder
  • murdering
  • negativing
  • net
  • neutralizing
  • nixing
  • obliterating
  • offing
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • outwearing
  • pay
  • payment
  • payoff
  • persnickety
  • pert
  • phasing out
  • playful
  • pleasing
  • pogrom
  • priceless
  • proceeds
  • profit
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • refusing
  • remittal
  • removing
  • repressing
  • requital
  • revenue
  • rich
  • ridiculous
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • riotous
  • risible
  • rough
  • rubbing out
  • rugged
  • salary
  • sales
  • sapping
  • scragging
  • screaming
  • seducing
  • severe
  • shooting down
  • shortening
  • shutting off
  • sidesplitting
  • silencing
  • slapstick
  • slapsticky
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • smiting
  • snickery
  • snuffing
  • soliciting
  • stalling
  • stern
  • sticking
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • stringent
  • suiciding
  • suppressing
  • taking
  • taking out
  • taxing
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • testing
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • trying
  • turning off
  • uproarious
  • vetoing
  • wages
  • waggish
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • whacking
  • whimsical
  • wiling
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witching
  • witty
  • wooing
  • wry
  • yield
  • zany

sanitizing

  • acclaiming
  • aggrandizing
  • boosting
  • brightening
  • brushing
  • canonizing
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • combing
  • decontaminating
  • deifying
  • deodorizing
  • deterging
  • dignifying
  • disinfecting
  • dry-cleaning
  • dusting
  • elevating
  • ennobling
  • enshrining
  • enskying
  • enthroning
  • exalting
  • extolling
  • freshening
  • glorifying
  • heightening
  • honoring
  • idealizing
  • intensifying
  • lauding
  • laundering
  • lifting
  • magnifying
  • mopping
  • picking up
  • praising
  • promoting
  • purging
  • purifying
  • raising
  • rinsing
  • romanticizing
  • scouring
  • scrubbing
  • shampooing
  • sponging
  • sugarcoating
  • swabbing
  • sweeping
  • sweetening
  • tidying
  • turning out
  • uncluttering
  • upgrading
  • uplifting
  • vacuuming
  • washing
  • wiping

wash

  • ablution
  • agitate
  • asperse
  • bath
  • bathe
  • be acceptable
  • be plausible
  • be reasonable
  • bear scrutiny
  • beat
  • bedew
  • bedraggle
  • bog
  • brush up
  • bubble
  • carry weight
  • churn
  • clean up
  • cleaning
  • cleanse
  • cleansing
  • coat
  • coating
  • convince
  • damp
  • dampen
  • deluge
  • dip
  • dirty clothes
  • do the dishes
  • do the laundry
  • douche
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • dribble
  • drip
  • drizzle
  • drop
  • drown
  • duck
  • dunk
  • ebb and flow
  • eddy
  • endure
  • engulf
  • fen
  • film
  • float
  • flood
  • flow
  • flush
  • fly
  • fresh up
  • freshen up
  • get through
  • go down
  • go over
  • go through
  • gook
  • guck
  • guggle
  • gurgle
  • gush
  • heave
  • hold up
  • hold water
  • hose
  • humidify
  • hydrate
  • imbue
  • immerse
  • impregnate
  • inundate
  • irrigate
  • jet
  • lap
  • lapping
  • launder
  • laundering
  • lave
  • layer
  • lip
  • marsh
  • marshland
  • mire
  • mist
  • moisten
  • moisturize
  • moor
  • morass
  • muck
  • mud
  • murmur
  • muskeg
  • ooze
  • overflow
  • overlay
  • paddle
  • pass
  • pass muster
  • plash
  • play
  • purl
  • quagmire
  • reel
  • rehydrate
  • rewash
  • rewet
  • rinse
  • ripple
  • roll
  • rush
  • saturate
  • scour
  • scrub
  • shake
  • shampoo
  • shine
  • shower
  • slew
  • slime
  • slop
  • slosh
  • slough
  • sludge
  • slue
  • sluice
  • slush
  • soak
  • soap
  • sodden
  • sop
  • souse
  • spew
  • splash
  • sponge
  • spout
  • sprinkle
  • spurt
  • squirt
  • stain
  • stand up
  • starch
  • steep
  • stick
  • stir
  • stream
  • submerge
  • suffusion
  • surge
  • surging
  • swab
  • swale
  • swamp
  • swampland
  • swash
  • sweep
  • swell
  • swirl
  • swish
  • swishing
  • swoosh
  • take
  • take a bath
  • take a shower
  • trickle
  • tub
  • undulation
  • wash out
  • wash up
  • washing
  • water
  • water-soak
  • waterlog
  • wet
  • wet down
  • wetland
  • wheel
  • whip
  • whirl
  • whish
  • whisk
  • wipe
  • work

canceling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • cancellation
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crossing out
  • crying off
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disregarding
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excepting
  • excising
  • excluding
  • expelling
  • expunction
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignoring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • missing
  • negating
  • neglecting
  • not including
  • not naming
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overlooking
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • passing over
  • powdering
  • precluding
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • scrapping
  • scratching out
  • scrubbing
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • slighting
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • withholding
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

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