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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
