 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cleansing
adjective
1: cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of
e.g. hands; "ablutionary rituals" [syn: {ablutionary}]
2: acting like an antiseptic [syn: {purifying}]
noun: the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good
cleaning" [syn: {cleaning}, {cleanup}]
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]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "cleansing":
abstergent, abstersion, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic,
anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, ascetic, assuasive, atoning,
balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bowdlerization, catharsis, cathartic,
cleaning, compensational, compensatory, deadening, deliverance,
demulcent, depurative, detergent, detersion, discharge, diuretic,
dry cleaning, dulling, easing, emetic, emollient,
emotional release, expiatory, expurgation, expurgatory, freeing,
intermission, lenitive, lustral, lustration, lustrational,
lustrative, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing,
palliative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgation,
purgative, purgatorial, purge, purging, purification, purificatory,
purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive,
redressing, release, relieving, remedial, removal, reparative,
reparatory, repentant, repenting, reprieve, respite, restitutional,
restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, softening,
soothing, squaring, steam cleaning, subduing, surcease,
suspension
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