Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adapted to cleanse and purify; designed for or devoted to purifying.
- noun The act of making clean; cleaning; purification.
- noun That which is removed in cleaning; dirt or refuse removed; specifically, the placenta or afterbirth: usually applied to animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective One that
cleanses . - noun The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
- verb Present participle of
cleanse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making something clean
- adjective acting like an antiseptic
- adjective cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands
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Examples
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There's cleansing; yes, blessed fact! there's _cleansing_ from this horrid impurity whose stain you are so conscious of.
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But almost immediately, some local priests announced that tomorrow they're going to be holding what they call a cleansing ceremony to take out any bad spirits, they say, that may have come in during the Bush visit.
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On Wednesday, video posted on a social media website by the Syrian army shows military troops celebrating what they call the 'cleansing' of Latakia.
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"To refer to 'cleansing' is deeply offensive to people who have witnessed cleansing in other parts of the world," he fumed.
Nick 'O'Teen' Clegg turns nasty Simon Hoggart 2010
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This theory became one of the major tenets of his preaching, and was especially efficacious in cleansing the consciences of the back-sliders from all other faiths who else, in the secrecy of their subconscious selves, were being crushed by the weight of the
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This means that ritual cleansing is required before one is able to perform prayers.
Dogs: Iran's new symbol of rebellion Masoud Golsorkhi 2010
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After all, ethnic cleansing is now totally OK with the US.
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The notion that we had even a backhanded role in ethnic cleansing is not something to be proud of.
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Wright also said that "ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza, and ethnic cleansing by the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity."
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And the anonymous, faceless robots of this block are bent on one objective above all: the cleansing from the German-speaking lands of “the low, materialistic Jews.”
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