cleanse
/klɛnz/ verb C1- 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.
He/she/it cleanses · Past cleansed · Past participle cleansed · -ing form cleansing
Verb forms
- Base form
- cleanse
- He/she/it
- cleanses
- Past
- cleansed
- Past participle
- cleansed
- -ing form
- cleansing
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But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
Darcy may, perhaps, have _heard_ of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month’s ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and, depend upon it, Mr.
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