Anagrams of: DETERGED

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

• cover before cooking

• search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

• remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

• wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body

• express greetings upon meeting someone

• send greetings to

• react to in a certain way

• be perceived by

• a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

• a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

• an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

• a measure for arcs and angles

• the highest power of a term or variable

• a unit of temperature on a specified scale

• the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)

• having a specified kind of border or edge

• (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

• having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination

• Covered with reeds; reedy.

• Formed with channels and ridges like reeds, as the edge of a coin.

• To thatch.

• To mill or mint with reeding.

• excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)