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cleanse

[ klenz ]

verb (used with object)

cleansed, cleansing.
  1. to make clean.
  2. to remove by or as if by cleaning:

    to cleanse sin from the soul.



verb (used without object)

cleansed, cleansing.
  1. to become clean.

cleanse

/ °ì±ôÉ›²Ô³ú /

verb

  1. to remove dirt, filth, etc, from
  2. to remove guilt from
  3. to remove a group of people from (an area) by means of ethnic cleansing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õ²¹²ú±ô±ð, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
  • °ù±ð·³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õ±ð verb (used with object) recleansed recleansing
  • un·³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô·³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õ±ð»å adjective
  • ·É±ð±ô±ô-³¦±ô±ð²¹²Ô²õ±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cleanse1

before 900; Middle English clensen, Old English ³¦±ôÇ£²Ô²õ¾±²¹²Ô, equivalent to ³¦±ôÇ£²Ô±ð clean + -si- v. suffix + -an infinitive suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cleanse1

Old English ³¦±ôÇ£²Ô²õ¾±²¹²Ô; related to Middle Low German °ì±ôŧ²Ô²õ±ð²Ô; see clean
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The purpose of earthly life for a good 16th-century Christian was to prepare for life with God in heaven, their soul cleansed of mortal sin.

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“The rhetoric and the practice of the Egyptian government when it comes to the war — the ethnic cleansing, the genocide — are of course very distant from their practices.â€

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"The government decided to cleanse the public sector of employees who were not loyal to them," says Nini Lezhava, who was among those to lose their jobs.

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More than one million Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority community that the United Nations calls victims of ethnic cleansing, fled violent purges in their home country, neighbouring Myanmar.

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She has kept an original private Facebook account: "I cleanse it once a year, and check on photos and privacy of posts and where I have been tagged."

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