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cleanse
/
klɛnz
/
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[
klenz
]
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verb,
cleansed,
cleans·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to make clean.
2.
to remove by or as if by cleaning:
to cleanse sin from the soul.
verb (used without object)
3.
to become clean.
Origin:
before 900;
Middle English
clensen,
Old English
clǣnsian,
equivalent to
clǣne
clean
+
-si-
v. suffix +
-an
infinitive suffix
Related forms
cleans·a·ble,
adjective
re·cleanse,
verb (used with object),
re·cleansed,
re·cleans·ing.
un·cleans·a·ble,
adjective
un·cleansed,
adjective
well-cleansed,
adjective
Can be confused:
clean
,
cleanse
(see synonym study at
clean
).
Synonyms
1.
See
clean
.
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World English Dictionary
cleanse
(klɛnz)
—
vb
1.
to remove dirt, filth, etc, from
2.
to remove guilt from
3.
to remove a group of people from (an area) by means of ethnic cleansing
[Old English
clǣnsian;
related to Middle Low German
klēnsen;
see
clean
]
'cleansable
—
adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cleanse
O.E. clænsian, from W.Gmc. *klainson, from *klainoz (see
clean
). Despite its modern spelling (16c.), it retains its M.E. pronunciation.
cleansing
O.E. clænsunge, noun of action from the root of
cleanse
. As a pp. adj., attested from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Water vapor does go away rapidly while it is
cleansing
the air as rain at times.
The faithful believe its waters are
cleansing
, but science tells a different
story.
The film veers unsteadily between a comic tone and the drama of a guilty
conscience in need of a
cleansing
.
Most of it will be supplied, belatedly, by the market itself-especially if it
is bathed in the
cleansing
sunlight of transparency.
She was a bureaucratic expediter of ethnic
cleansing
.
Part of the holy war was, as it were, an exercise in philosophical
cleansing
.
The article said there could be no
cleansing
of soot in the upper atmosphere because rain falls below that point.
First it signaled spiritual
cleansing
and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high.
That's because facial hair is more resistant to
cleansing
after exposure in a laboratory setting.
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cleansing
, they have not reversed it.
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