cleanse, clean
(verb) clean one’s body or parts thereof, as by washing; “clean up before you see your grandparents”; “clean your fingernails before dinner”
cleanse
(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; “Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cleanse (third-person singular simple present cleanses, present participle cleansing, simple past and past participle cleansed)
(transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
(transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
cleanse (plural cleanses)
An act of cleansing; a purification.
Synonym: cleansing
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Source: Wiktionary
Cleanse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] Etym: [AS. clænsian, fr. clæne clean. See Clean.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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