cleanse means an act of cleansing; a purification.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cleanse ranks #1,987 of 42,747 for Qualifying.
cleanse is pronounced /klɛnz/.
Etymology
From Middle English clensen, from Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“clean”). Cognate with West Frisian klinzgje (“to clean, cleanse”), archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean, purify”), Middle Low German klênsen, kleinsen, clensen (“to purify”).
noun
- An act of cleansing; a purification.e.g.“I regularly visit the spa for a massage and a facial cleanse.”
verb
- To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.e.g.“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.” — 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
- To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
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