cleanse

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English clensen, from Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“clean”). Cognate with West Frisian klinzgje (“to clean, cleanse”), archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean, purify”), Middle Low German klênsen, kleinsen, clensen (“to purify”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /klɛnz/ Rhymes: -ɛnz === Verb === cleanse (third-person singular simple present cleanses, present participle cleansing, simple past and past participle cleansed) (transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify. Synonym: deterge (technical, especially for a wound) (transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge. (transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === cleanse (countable and uncountable, plural cleanses) An act of cleansing; a purification. Synonym: cleansing ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Senecal, canelés, elances, enlaces, enscale, scalene