cleanse
/klɛnz/
verb
- To make something thoroughly clean, especially the skin or a wound.
- Use this gentle soap to cleanse your face every morning.
- The nurse cleansed the cut with antiseptic before bandaging it.
- She cleanses her skin with a special cream to remove makeup.
- To remove something unwanted or harmful from a person or place, often in a spiritual or moral sense.
- The ceremony was meant to cleanse the community of bad luck.
- The organization worked to cleanse the river of industrial pollution.
- He tried to cleanse his mind of negative thoughts through meditation.
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