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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cleanse \Cleanse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleansed}; 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cleanse v 1: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: {clean}] 2: free from Nazi ideology; "Germany was denazified after WW II" [syn: {denazify}] [ant: {Nazify}]
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