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Cleanse

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Verb

1. clean, cleanse

clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

Example Sentences:
'clean up before you see your grandparents'
'clean your fingernails before dinner'

2. cleanse

purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

Example Sentences:
'Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cleanse

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verb (transitive)
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

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Cleanse

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verb transitiveWord forms: cleansed or ˈcleansing
to make clean, pure, etc.; clean; purge

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cleanse

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tr.v. cleansed, cleans·ing, cleans·es
1.
a. To free from dirt, contamination, or impurities: cleansed the wound.
b. To treat (the body or an organ) with a regimen intended to remove impurities and promote health: drank vegetable juice for a week to cleanse her digestive system.
2. To purify morally or spiritually: cleanse the organization of corruption; cleansed of sin.
3. To subject to ethnic cleansing.
n.
An act of cleansing: a cleanse of the digestive system.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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