cleanse
Plural: cleanses
Verb
Verb Forms: cleansed, cleansing, cleanses
- To make thoroughly clean, often implying purification.
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
- "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"
- To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
- To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
- To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
Noun
- An act of cleansing; a purification.
Examples
- I regularly visit the spa for a massage and a facial cleanse.
- Using CLEANSE for 15 points, he hoped to purge his hand of common letters.
Origin / Etymology
From Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klaini (“clean”). Cognate with archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean; to purify”).
Scrabble Score: 9
cleanse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcleanse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cleanse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
cleanse: valid Words With Friends Word