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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 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 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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