Synonyms for cleanse
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1. cleanse

   To clean is to make clean by removing dirt, impurities, or soil of any kind. Cleanse implies a worse condition to start from, and more to do, than clean. Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Cleanse is especially applied to purifying processes where liquid is used, as in the flushing of a street, etc. We brush clothing if dusty, sponge it, or sponge it off, if soiled; or sponge off a spot. Furniture, books, etc., are dusted; floors are mopped or scrubbed; metallic utensils are scoured; a room is swept; soiled garments are washed; foul air or water is purified. Cleanse and purify are used extensively in a moral sense; wash in that sense is archaic. Compare AMEND.

   Synonyms:
   brush, clean, disinfect, dust, lave, mop, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sponge, sweep, wash, wipe

   Antonyms:
   befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiate

   Preposition:
   Cleanse of or from physical or moral defilement; cleanse with an instrument; by an agent; the room was cleansed by the attendants with soap and water.

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1. cleanse, cleanverb

   clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

   "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

   Synonyms:
   pick, scavenge, clean, make clean, houseclean, clean house, strip

2. cleanseverb

   purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

   "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"

   Synonyms:
   clean

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1. cleanseverb

   Synonyms:
   purify, clean, make clean, free from dirt

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1. cleanseverb

   Synonyms:
   purify, deterge, absterge, wash, disinfect, fumigate, depurate

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1. List of paraphrases for "cleanse":

   purify, clean, purge, wash

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How to use cleanse in a sentence?

1. John H Aughey:

   God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

2. Myriah Williams:

   He fits the time frame for the erasures, which we know would have been in the late 16th century, but we can only speculate that he might have been the one to take it upon himself to 'cleanse' the manuscript.

3. Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis":

   ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

4. Associate Justice:

   This repackaging does little to cleanse [the policy] of the appearance of discrimination that the president’s words have created, based on the evidence in the record, a reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus.

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.