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.

Related Words

washing

  • ablution
  • ablutionary
  • abstersion
  • agitating
  • aspersing
  • bath
  • bathing
  • beating
  • bedewing
  • bedraggling
  • bubbling
  • churning
  • dampening
  • damping
  • deluging
  • detersion
  • dipping
  • dirty clothes
  • douching
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • drenching
  • dribbling
  • dripping
  • drizzling
  • dropping
  • drowning
  • ducking
  • dunking
  • eddying
  • engulfing
  • flooding
  • flowing
  • flushing
  • flying
  • fomentation
  • getting through
  • going down
  • going over
  • going through
  • guggling
  • gurgling
  • gushing
  • holding up
  • holding water
  • hosing
  • humidifying
  • hydrating
  • impregnating
  • inundating
  • irrigating
  • jetting
  • lapping
  • laundering
  • laundry
  • lavabo
  • lavage
  • lavation
  • lavement
  • laving
  • lipping
  • maundy
  • misting
  • moistening
  • moisturizing
  • overflowing
  • paddling
  • passing
  • passing muster
  • plashing
  • playing
  • purling
  • reeling
  • rehydrating
  • rewashing
  • rewetting
  • rinsing
  • rippling
  • rushing
  • saturating
  • shaking
  • showering
  • sloshing
  • sluicing
  • soaking
  • soddening
  • sopping
  • sousing
  • spewing
  • splashing
  • spouting
  • sprinkling
  • spurting
  • squirting
  • standing up
  • steeping
  • stirring
  • streaming
  • submerging
  • swamping
  • swashing
  • swirling
  • swishing
  • swooshing
  • taking
  • trickling
  • wash
  • washing out
  • water-soaking
  • watering
  • waterlogging
  • wetting
  • wetting down
  • wheeling
  • whipping
  • whirling
  • whishing
  • whisking
  • working

laving

  • ablution
  • absolution
  • abstersion
  • atonement
  • baptism
  • bath
  • bathing
  • bubbling
  • catharsis
  • cleansing
  • depuration
  • detersion
  • dip
  • disinfection
  • distillation
  • douche
  • dousing
  • expiation
  • expurgation
  • fomentation
  • forgiveness
  • gargle
  • grace
  • gurgling
  • lapping
  • laundering
  • laundry
  • lavabo
  • lavage
  • lavation
  • lavement
  • lipping
  • lustration
  • maundy
  • plashing
  • purgation
  • purge
  • purifying
  • rarefaction
  • rebirth
  • redemption
  • refinement
  • regeneration
  • rinsing
  • rippling
  • salvation
  • sanctification
  • scrubbing
  • shower
  • sloshing
  • soak
  • soaking
  • soaping
  • splashing
  • sponging
  • tub
  • wash
  • washing

eliding

  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abridging
  • abstracting
  • blacking out
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blotting out
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • compressing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • cropping
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • digesting
  • diminishing
  • docking
  • downsizing
  • dwindling
  • effacing
  • encapsulating
  • epitomizing
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • killing
  • laundering
  • lessening
  • lowering
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • obliterating
  • paring
  • pruning
  • recapitulating
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • reducing
  • removing
  • repressing
  • retrenching
  • rubbing out
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • silencing
  • slashing
  • summarizing
  • summing up
  • suppressing
  • syncopating
  • tapering
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • wiping out

cancelling

  • X-out
  • abandoning
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolish
  • abolishing
  • abort
  • aborting
  • abrogate
  • abrogating
  • annihilating
  • annul
  • annulling
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • ax
  • balance out
  • banning
  • black out
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blot out
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • break
  • break off
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • call off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • compensate for
  • consuming
  • counteract
  • counterbalance
  • countercheck
  • countermand
  • countermanding
  • counterpoise
  • cropping
  • cross out
  • crying off
  • cut
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • declare invalid
  • deface
  • deleing
  • delete
  • deleting
  • demolishing
  • destroy
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discard
  • discarding
  • discharge
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • do away with
  • do in
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • efface
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminate
  • eliminating
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicate
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunge
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finish off
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • frustrate
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignore
  • interrupting
  • invalidate
  • invalidating
  • jettisoning
  • kill
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • make up for
  • negate
  • negating
  • neutralize
  • nullify
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterate
  • obliterating
  • off
  • offset
  • omit
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • put an end to
  • quash
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recant
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • redeem
  • redress
  • refute
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • remove
  • removing
  • render inert
  • render invalid
  • render null and void
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiate
  • rescind
  • rescinding
  • retract
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoke
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rub out
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • rule out
  • scrapping
  • scratch out
  • scrub
  • scrubbing
  • set aside
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • sink
  • smash
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • squash
  • stamp across
  • stopping
  • strike out
  • striking down
  • suppress
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • torpedo
  • total
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trash
  • trim
  • undo
  • vacate
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • void
  • voiding
  • wash out
  • wasting
  • wipe out
  • wipe slate clean
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zap
  • zapping

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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