1. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
   - clean 
2. Purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
   "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"

Derived forms: cleansing, cleanses, cleansed

See also: cleanser, cleansing

Type of: disembarrass, free, groom, neaten, rid

Encyclopedia: Cleanse

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