cleanse
VerbUS[klenz]/klɛnz/1 syllable
Synonyms:
clean
Open English WordNet
Verb (2)cleansed, cleansing
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing“clean up before you see your grandparents”“clean your fingernails before dinner”Synonyms: cleanMore general groom, neatenMore specific wash, bathe, decontaminate, douche, floss, soap
- purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins“Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins”More general rid, freeMore specific denazify
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cleanse (klĕnz), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Cleansed (klĕnzd); present participle & verbal noun Cleansing.]
Origin: AS. clǣnsian, fr. clǣne clean. See Clean.
To render clean; to free from filth, 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?— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54