cleanse
verb (used with object)
to make clean.
has cleansed
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present perfectof cleanse (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He has cleansed the palate with back-to-back victories the last two seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
The new boss has cleansed the club of most of the wasters we were lumbered with and is slowly building a team of players who really want to play for him and the club.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2010
And their deeds shall find a record In the registry of Fame; For their blood has cleansed completely Every blot of Slavery's shame.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
In getting well, it is often necessary to become quite slender, but after the system has cleansed itself, it gains in weight again.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
"Their young sorceress," said he, "has washed your body with bitter-bark and sumach, and has cleansed the wounds and stopped them with dry moss and balsam, so that they have ceased bleeding."
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
