Cleanse

Quick meaning: Cleanse is a verb meaning (transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.

Meaning

(transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
2. (transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
3. An act of cleansing; a purification.

Example Sentences

I regularly visit the spa for a massage and a facial cleanse.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

[T]he famous Ganges: whoſe vnknowne head, pleaſant ſtreames, and long extent, haue amongſt thoſe Heathen Inhabitants, (by the Tradition of their Forefathers) gained a beliefe of clenſing all ſuch ſinnes, as the bodies of thoſe that waſh therein brought with them: [...]

Word Forms

• cleanses
• cleansing
• cleansed

Synonyms for cleanse

Depending on context, synonyms include deterge, cleansing, clean, denazify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include denazify, clean, purify, purge, cleanliness, sanitize.

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