'Cleanse' definitions:
Definition of 'cleanse'
(from WordNet)
verb
Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse, clean]
verb
Purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"
Definition of 'Cleanse'
From: GCIDE
- Cleanse \Cleanse\ (kl[e^]nz), v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
- If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. --1 John i. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cleanse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beatify,
- bleach,
- bless,
- bowdlerize,
- canonize,
- clarify,
- clean,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- cleanse away,
- clear out,
- consecrate,
- dedicate,
- deliver,
- delouse,
- depurate,
- deterge,
- devote,
- discharge,
- disinfect,
- dry-clean,
- dust,
- dust off,
- enshrine,
- exalt,
- expiate,
- expurgate,
- free,
- free from,
- freshen,
- give release,
- give respite,
- glorify,
- hallow,
- intermit,
- lustrate,
- purge,
- purge away,
- purify,
- reform,
- release,
- remove,
- reprieve,
- saint,
- sanctify,
- sanitize,
- scavenge,
- scour,
- scrub,
- set apart,
- spruce,
- steam-clean,
- sterilize,
- suspend,
- sweep out,
- sweeten,
- tidy,
- wash,
- whiten,
- wipe,
- wipe off,
- wipe out,
- wipe up