Definition of CLEANSE

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”).

Synonyms

clean, cleansing

Scrabble Score: 9

cleanse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cleanse: 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