'Cleansing' definitions:
Definition of 'cleansing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands; "ablutionary rituals" [syn: ablutionary, cleansing]
adjective
Acting like an antiseptic [syn: cleansing, purifying]
noun
Definition of 'Cleansing'
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 'cleansing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstergent,
- abstersion,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- assuasive,
- atoning,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- bowdlerization,
- catharsis,
- cathartic,
- cleaning,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- deadening,
- deliverance,
- demulcent,
- depurative,
- detergent,
- detersion,
- discharge,
- diuretic,
- dry cleaning,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emetic,
- emollient,
- emotional release,
- expiatory,
- expurgation,
- expurgatory,
- freeing,
- intermission,
- lenitive,
- lustral,
- lustration,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgation,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purge,
- purging,
- purification,
- purificatory,
- purifying,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- release,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- removal,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- softening,
- soothing,
- squaring,
- steam cleaning,
- subduing,
- surcease,
- suspension