Synonyms for cleansing
cleans·ing

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1. cleaning, cleansing, cleanupadjective

   the act of making something clean

   "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"

   Synonyms:
   cleanup position, cleanup spot, killing, cleaning, cleanup

   Antonyms:
   infected, adulterating, septic, adulterant

2. ablutionary, cleansingadjective

   cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands

   "ablutionary rituals"

   Synonyms:
   purifying, ablutionary

   Antonyms:
   septic, infected, adulterating, adulterant

3. cleansing, purifyingadjective

   acting like an antiseptic

   Synonyms:
   purging, purgatorial, purifying, ablutionary

   Antonyms:
   infected, septic, adulterant, adulterating

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1. cleansingnoun

   Synonyms:
   purification, purifying

2. cleansingadjective

   Synonyms:
   purifying, purgative, abstergent, cathartic

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1. cleansingadjective

   Synonyms:
   detergent, abstergent, abstersive, detersive, purifying

2. cleansingnoun

   Synonyms:
   purification, detersion, purgation, abstersion, lustration, expurgation

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1. List of paraphrases for "cleansing":

   cleaning, purification, debugging, clean-up, debug, purge, clean, cleanup, washing, cleanliness, depuration, cleaner, cleansed, clearance, purges, lustration, clearing, purging, washed, laundering, wash, purged, purifying

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1. Thaung Tun:

   If you can send back 700,000 on a voluntary basis, we are willing to receive them, can this be called ethnic cleansing ?

2. Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   Once this cleansing is finished our military will be stronger, our soldiers will be stronger, providing better support and coordination to NATO.

3. Mickey Mehta:

   Today life is going through unstable paces, animals slaved in cages and food exhibited in show-cases. We eat trash, our language is brash, life is a dash and humanity is about to crash. Black is cash, party is a bash and cleansing is just a splash. Wake up, come back to nature or else a human being will just be reduced to a caricature . Let your life be naturalized, get MickeyMized.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   We are witnessing ethnic cleansing in Syria by Turkey, the destruction of a reliable ally in the Kurds, and the reemergence of ISIS.

5. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   Russia is trying to make ethnic cleansing in northern Latakia to force all Turkmen and Sunni population who do not have good relations with the regime, they want to expel them, they want to ethnically cleanse this area so that regime and Russian bases in Latakia and Tartus are protected.