Crossword clues for cleanse
cleanse
- Thoroughly clean
- Hose down
- Remove dirt from
- Remove impurities from
- Remove impurities
- Free of impurities
- Detox diet
- Purge, as of sins
- Use Comet or Bon Ami on
- Rid of impurity
- Remove grime
- Remove dirt (from)
- Make spic-and-span
- Free from pollution
- Detoxification process
- Detoxification diet
- Detox, e.g
- Benefit from a mud bath
- Apply cold cream
- Use face cream
- Purify
- Make pure
- Wash
- Deterge
- Make spotless
- Detox, say
- Detox, e.g.
- Purge, as bad thoughts
- Remove grime from
- Canned eels can have a purifying effect
- Free from sin, is inclined to enter church
- Remove sin from learner Seneca corrupted
- Purge of Sophoclean sensibilities
- Purge lists to block extremists on committee
- Prefers to be in church to give absolution
- Is inclined to enter church to get purified
- Has an inclination to enter church free from sin
- To purify church, is inclined to enter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ
his son cleanseth us from all sin.
--1 John i. 7.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To free from dirt; to clean, purify.
WordNet
v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: clean]
purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"
Wikipedia
Cleanse may refer to:
- Cleanliness, the state of being clean and free from dirt.
- Detoxification, an alternative medicine approach that proponents claim rids the body of toxins.
Usage examples of "cleanse".
Thrusting them into a basin of water, Adad cleansed himself before again addressing Semerket.
Agatha bathed the babe while Galswinthe and Elspeth helped to rid Aelveva of the afterbirth, then cleansed her.
If Paul had only been content to be their namesake, their philosopher, who had set them all the conscientious young men and women of the Adelbom who had formed the Oca Front six years agoon the road to cleansing and reawakening the human spirit.
It had been mixed with yarrow, agrimony, willow, and elder for cleansing and magical protection.
Capustan shall be cleansed, Shield Anvil, though, alas, you will not live to see that glorious day.
We can confidently recommend this compound whenever an alterative is required to cleanse the blood, tone the system, increase its nutrition, and establish a healthy condition.
I gave the boat a cleansing with baler and sponge, redded her up after a fashion, and finally moored her off with a shore-line, some twenty yards out on the placid water.
The character imprinted on the soul is a kind of sign in so far as it is imprinted by a sensible sacrament: since we know that a certain one has received the baptismal character, through his being cleansed by the sensible water.
But the baptismal cleansing signifies the cleansing of the soul from guilt, and not the fashioning of the soul with grace and virtues.
As the baptismal water by its cleansing signifies the washing away of guilt, and by its refreshment the remission of punishment, so by its natural clearness it signifies the splendor of grace and virtues.
Christ was baptized, not that He might be cleansed, but that He might cleanse, as stated above.
Further, if anyone be baptized in the sea, the entire sea-water is not sanctified by the form of baptism, but only the water wherewith the body of the baptized is cleansed.
It was seldom now that a visiting carriage came dri vine through the water-filled bawn to cleanse its wheels before the return journey.
Julianne had told him once, seeing how the birken tree was another name for the birch, which stood for the first month of the druidic calendar of the trees and represented a time of beginning and cleansing.
For the purulent scrofulous ophthalmic inflammation of infants, by cleansing the eyes thoroughly every half-hour with warm water, and then packing the sockets each time with fresh Cabbage leaves cleaned and bruised to a soft pulp, the flow of matter will be increased for a few days, but a cure will be soon effected.