CLEANSE

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

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Etymology

Verb

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.

Noun

cleanse (plural cleanses)

An act of cleansing; a purification.

Synonym: cleansing

Anagrams

• Senecal, canelés, elances, enlaces, enscale, scalene

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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