It is an inflection of absterger that means wipe, wipe with a damp cloth. It can also be used to indicate that it cleans or sanitizes a lacerated surface or a wound (in medicine and nursing). Clean, disinfect and sterilize. It is a word of Latin origin (abstergere: dry, wet).
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