Meaning of CLEANSE
| Pronunciation: | | klenz
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- [v] clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"
- [v] purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"
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| | Synonyms: | | clean |
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| | See Also: | | bath, bathe, decontaminate, denazify, disembarrass, douche, floss, free, groom, lather, lave, neaten, rid, soap, wash | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cleanse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleansed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cleansing}.] [AS. cl[=ae]nsian, fr. cl[=ae]ne clean. See
{Clean}.]
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection,
guilt, etc.; to clean.
If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ
his son cleanseth us from all sin. --1 John i. 7.
Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with
some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom
of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
--Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | beatify, bleach, bless, bowdlerize, canonize, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse away, clear out, consecrate, dedicate, deliver, delouse, depurate, deterge, devote, discharge, disinfect, dry-clean, dust, dust off, enshrine, exalt, expiate, expurgate, free, free from, freshen, give release, give respite, glorify, hallow, intermit, lustrate, purge, purge away, purify, reform, release, remove, reprieve, saint, sanctify, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, set apart, spruce, steam-clean, sterilize, suspend, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, wash, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up |
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