cleanse
verb (used with object)
to make clean.
cleansed
Example Sentences
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Maybe it’s because he was lucky enough to have his footprint cleansed a bit.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
She said “demand for filtration is skyrocketing,” with cleansed stormwater “the biggest source of new water supply.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Could the political parties ever be cleansed of corruption? What place would African Americans have in American society? Would Native Americans survive at all, and at what cost to their embattled cultures?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“That cleansed the space of a lot of weaker companies,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
You return to find your houses combed spotless of spoiled crumbs, your bedding free of lice, your woodlots cleansed of night soil, your hen coops rid of chicken mites.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
