 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cleanse
verb
1: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up
before you see your grandparents"; "clean your
fingernails before dinner" [syn: {clean}]
2: purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is
supposed to cleanse you from your sins"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cleanse \Cleanse\ (kl[e^]nz), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cleansed}
(kl[e^]nzd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleansing}.] [AS. cl[=ae]nsian,
fr. cl[=ae]ne clean. See {Clean}.]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cleanse":
beatify, bleach, bless, bowdlerize, canonize, clarify, clean,
clean out, clean up, cleanse away, clear out, consecrate, dedicate,
deliver, delouse, depurate, deterge, devote, discharge, disinfect,
dry-clean, dust, dust off, enshrine, exalt, expiate, expurgate,
free, free from, freshen, give release, give respite, glorify,
hallow, intermit, lustrate, purge, purge away, purify, reform,
release, remove, reprieve, saint, sanctify, sanitize, scavenge,
scour, scrub, set apart, spruce, steam-clean, sterilize, suspend,
sweep out, sweeten, tidy, wash, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out,
wipe up
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