Cleanse

Definition: Cleanse

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".

2. Purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cleanse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Cleanse \Cleanse\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Cleansed; present participle verb or noun Cleansing.]. (references)

Synonym: Cleanse

Cleanness

Clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.

Crosswords: Cleanse

I've got to cleanse myself (Criminal; performing artist: Fiona Apple)

I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind , I feel free now. (BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY; performing artist: The Verve)

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Books

• In Search of the Perfect Cleanse (reference)

• The Amazing Liver Cleanse (reference)

• The Cleanse Cookbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tune Your Brain With Tchaikovsky: Cleanse (reference)

• Cleanse Fold & Manipulate (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The staging area at Greenwich Bay, RI. Shellfishermen were hired by RI DEM to harvest quahogs from polluted areas to be transferred to clean areas where they could depurate, or cleanse themselves. The shellfish were protected from harvest and were later allowed to be harvested after they had spawned and contributed to wild stocks. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Testing her anti-nuclear radiation "washdown" system, 7 July 1954. The original caption reads: "USS Worcester ... steaming under a protective water screen during atomic defense maneuvers. The ship employs its salt water system to cleanse itself of radioactive debris resulting from an atomic attack. The water carrying the radioactive debris is shown being discharged into the sea.". Credit: NAVY.

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As the waters of baptism cleanse the soul with the body so do the fires of punishment torture the spirit with the flesh

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Health

Cleanse the area with an antiseptic. (references)

People who genetically lack CYP2D6 may not be able to cleanse their systems of these drugs and may be vulnerable to drug toxicity. (references)

Various drugs are available to relieve the pain of a UTI. A heating pad may also help. Most doctors suggest that drinking plenty of water helps cleanse the urinary tract of bacteria. (references)

Children

Malawi

The belief that children are unlikely to be HIV positive and the widespread belief that sexual intercourse with virgins can cleanse an individual of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, contributes to the sexual abuse of minors. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

Additionally, the Government of Bolivia is working with the IMF to overhaul and cleanse the Customs Administration from top to bottom and with the IBRD to implement a wider-ranging reform to address corruption within the bureaucracy of the national government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "cleanse": cleanse the augean stables. Additional references.

Beginning with "cleanse": cleanse-tone-protect.

Ending with "cleanse": deep-cleanse.

Afrikaans

skoonmaak (clean, make, make clean, purge). (various references)

Albanian

purifikoj, pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, clear up, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظف طهر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

очиствам (break, chastise, clean, clear, depurate, deterge, do in, flick, polish off, pop off, purge, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out, wipe out), изчиствам (clean out, clear out, get off, take out), дезинфекцирам (disinfect, fumigate). (various references)

Chinese 

瀹 (to boil), �" (remove evil), 沐 (bathe, receive favors), �" (name of a river), 澣 (bathe), �"淨 , 淘 (eliminate, to clean out, to wash), 滌 (wash), �"�拭 (clean), 洌 (pure), 洗涤 (Cleansed, Cleansing, Laundered, laundering, Wash, Washed, washed-out, washed-up, washing-up), 洮 (name of a river). (various references)

Czech

oèistit (purge, purify, whitewash, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), èistit (clean, depurate, fine down, groom, scour, sweep). (various references)

Danish

rense (clean, make clean, purge), gøre rent (clean, make clean, purge), gøre ren (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Dutch

schoonmaken (clean, make clean, purge), reinigen (clean, make clean, purge), louteren (clean, make clean, purge, refine). (various references)

Esperanto

purigi (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Faeroese

reinsa (clean, make clean, purge, refine), gera reint (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Farsi 

پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), تمیزکردن (Clean, Scavenge, Scrub, Wisp), تطهیرکردن (Exorcise, Expurgate, Purge, Sancify, Scour), تبرءه کردن (Acquit, Clear, Excuse, Exonerate, Purge). (various references)

Finnish

puhdistaa (clean, clear, clear up, polish, purge, purify, refine, tidy up). (various references)

French

purifier (clean, make clean). (various references)

Frisian

suverje (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

German

reinigen (bowdlerize, clarify, clean, cleaning, clear, defecate, dry clean, expurgate, launder, purge, purify, refine, shampoo, to clean, to cleanse, to defecate, to scavenge, to scour). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, clean, clear, clear out, clear up, defecate, finish up, flux, furbish, net, peel, purge, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, wash away), εκκαθαρίζω (clean, liquidate, refine), αποκαθαίρω. (various references)

Hebrew 

למרוק (polish, rub, scour, scrub), לק� ח (wipe, wipe off), לט�"ר (clear, exonerate, make clean, purge, purify, rid), ל� קות (acquit, clean, exculpate, exonerate). (various references)

Hungarian

tisztít (beautify, clarify, clean, launder, make clean, purge, purify, to brighten, to clarify, to clean, to cleanse, to defecate, to elutriate, to fine down, to flush, to groom, to hull, to launder, to polish, to prick, to refine, to scrub, to shine, to top and tail). (various references)

Icelandic

hreinsa (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Indonesian

menceriakan. (various references)

Italian

pulire (bream, clean, make, make clean, mop, pick, purge, scavenge, scrub, sweep, wash, wipe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

清める (to cleanse, to exorcise, to purify). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きよめる (to cleanse, to exorcise, to purify), あらいきよめる (to cleanse, to wash clean), み�'きよめる (to cleanse oneself). (various references)

Korean 

� ��"하십시�". (various references)

Malay

membersihkan (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Papiamen

purifiká (clean, make clean, purge), limpia (clean, have sex, make clean, purge, screw). (various references)

Pig Latin

eanseclay.(various references)

Polish

czyścić (clean, make clean, purge). (various references)

Portuguese

limpar (bream, brush, clean, delete, depurate, fettle, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rake, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), purificar (chasten, clarify, clean, defecate, depurate, distil, distill, elutriate, fine, purge, purify, rarefy, reconcile, rectify, refine, scrub, sweeten, wash). (various references)

Romanian

purifica (chasten, clarify, clean, defecate, make clean, purge, purify, rectify, sanctify, still, sublimate). (various references)

Russian 

очищать (brighten, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, clear, decontaminate, defecate, depurate, deterge, distil, edulcorate, evacuate, mop up, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scoured, scouring, scours). (various references)

Scottish

cairt (a card, a cart, bark, card, cart, chart), nigh (purify, wash), glan (clean, clean-limbed, pure, purify, wipe clean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pročistiti (purge), očistiti (clean, clean off, clear, do away, expurgate, purge, scavenge, scour, shine, swab). (various references)

Spanish

limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up). (various references)

Sranan

krin (clean, make clean, pure, purge). (various references)

Swedish

rensa (clean, clear, draw, dress, eviscerate, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, pick over, purge, sanitize, scour, shell, weed), rengöra (brush, clean, depurate, deterge, make clean, purge, scavenge). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้สะอา�" (clear). (various references)

Turkish

temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, clear, clear up, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), tedavi etmek (cure, doctor, nurse, physic, remedy, take, treat), iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), ayiklamak (clean, make clean, purge), arındırmak (clean, decontaminate, purge, purify). (various references)

Turkmen 

tдmizlemek (purify), taraюlamak (clean, polish). (various references)

Ukrainian

чистити (brighten, burnish, clean, clean down, flay, furbish, scour, scrub, stem), очищати (alcoholize, chasten, clarify, clean, clear, defecate, depurate, deterge, fine, outwash, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scale, weed), дезінфікувати (dip, disinfect, fumigate). (various references)

Welsh

carthu (purge, scavenge), puro (purify), glanhau (purify). (various references)

gub. (various references)

abluo, absterget, abstersit, dealbabuntur, dealbata, dealbatis, dealbaverunt, expurgate, extergent, extergere, extergimus, exterserit, extersit, munda, mundaberis, mundabimini, mundabis, mundabisque, mundabit, mundabitur, mundabo, mundabor, mundabunt, mundamini, mundandus, mundans, mundantes, mundantur, mundare, mundarentur, mundaret, mundari, mundas, mundata, mundatam, mundate, mundati, mundatio, mundatione, mundatis, mundatum, mundatur, mundatus, mundaveram, mundavero, mundaverunt, mundavi, mundavit, mundavitque, mundemus, mundent, munder, mundo, permundabit, propurga, purga, purgabis, purgabit, purgans, purgare, purgaret, purgat, purgato, purgatum, purgavit, purgavitque, purgetur, purgo, tergebat, tergo, thersa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cleanse": cleansed, cleanser, cleansers, cleanses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cleanse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calenes, calibanese, celane, Celines, Claasen, cleane, cleanseth, cleantex, Cleanth, clease, Clelands, clence, clense, creaunce, Leanse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enlaces, scalene.

-1 letter: aneles, cleans, encase, enlace, lances, seance, seneca.

-2 letters: acnes, alecs, anele, canes, cease, cense, clans, clean, easel, elans, laces, lance, lanes, leans, lease, lenes, lense, scale, scena, scene.

-3 letters: aces, acne, alec, alee, ales, anes, cane, cans, case, cees, cels, clan, ease, eels, elan, else, lace, lacs, lane, lase, lean, leas, lees, lens.

+1 letter: cenacles, cleaners, cleanest, cleansed, cleanser, cleanses, enclaves, nacelles, nuclease, recleans, salience, valences.

+2 letters: calenders, cancelers, ceruleans, clarences, cleanness, cleansers, clearness, elegances, encapsule, enclasped, lancelets, larceners, larcenies, latencies, mescaline, necklaces, nucleases, nucleates, pentacles, pleasance, precleans, reliances, saliences, selectman, semblance, seneschal, slackened, spanceled, tentacles, valencies, vernacles.

+3 letters: accentless, acetylenes, adolescent, affluences, anthelices, arecolines, ascendable, ascendible, blackeners, calentures, calmnesses, cancellers, celandines, celebrants, censurable, centesimal, centralest, centralise, challenges, chameleons, chandelles, changeless, channelers, cleanliest, clearances, clientages, coalescent, concealers, convalesce, covalences, decennials, elegancies, encapsuled, encapsules, encashable, enucleates, exultances, facileness, freelances, houseclean, interlaces, lacinesses, lambencies, lemniscate, licensable, linecaster, mescalines, opalescent, overcleans, percalines, petulances, placements, plasticene, pleasances, precancels, rebalances, rechannels, rectangles, relaunches, relevances, saliencies, screenable, screenland, screenplay, semblances, seneschals, solacement, spancelled, superclean, tolerances, uncleanest, unclearest, uncoalesce.