 cleanse |
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| 1. | [ verb ] clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | |
| Synonyms: | clean | |
| Examples: | "clean up before you see your grandparents" "clean your fingernails before dinner" |
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| Related terms: | groom wash bathe floss soap wash douche decontaminate bathe cleaning | |
| 2. | [ verb ] purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | |
| Examples: | "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins" |
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| Related terms: | rid denazify | |
| 3. | [ verb ] free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | |
| Synonyms: | denazify | |
| Examples: | "Germany was denazified after WW II" "The highest judges were never denazified" |
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| Related terms: | Nazify change de-nazification | |
| Similar spelling: |
cleanser cleansed clannish clams cleansing cleanness clamshell Clance clannishly Claunch clanger Clancey Clingan clansman clean-cut clank clang |
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