cleanse
verb (used with object)
to make clean.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"I am cleansing and renewing myself for the very different sorts of years to come," he tells his creation, Kilgore Trout, when they meet at Midland City.
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