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- [klenz]
- /klɛnz/
- /klenz/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [klenz]
- /klɛnz/
Definitions of cleanse word
- verb cleanse To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it. 3
- verb cleanse If you cleanse your skin or a wound, you clean it. 3
- verb cleanse If armed forces cleanse an area, they use violent methods to force certain groups of people to leave it and go to live elsewhere. You can also say that people are cleansed from an area. 3
- verb cleanse to remove dirt, filth, etc, from 3
- verb cleanse to remove guilt from 3
- verb cleanse to remove a group of people from (an area) by means of ethnic cleansing 3
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Origin of cleanse
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English clensen, Old English clǣnsian, equivalent to clǣne clean + -si- v. suffix + -an infinitive suffix
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Parts of speech for Cleanse
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
cleanse popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
cleanse usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cleanse
verb cleanse
- purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- restore — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
Antonyms for cleanse
verb cleanse
- dirty — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
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