2 : to expel, imprison, or kill (the members of an ethnic minority) in (an area) : to subject to or remove by ethnic cleansing

[transitive] cleanse somebody (of/from something) (literary) to take away somebody’s guilty feelings or sin She felt cleansed of her sins after confession. see also ethnic cleansing

It pits you against the elements in various scenarios from escaping the island after a shipwreck to cleansing the island of spirits.

If you cleanse your skin or a wound, you clean it. Catherine demonstrated the proper way to cleanse the face. [VERB noun] ...cleansing lotions. [VERB -ing]

2. To purify morally or spiritually: cleanse the organization of corruption; cleansed of sin. 3. To subject to ethnic cleansing. n. An act of cleansing: a cleanse of the digestive system.

cleansed, cleansing to make clean. to remove by or as if by cleaning. to cleanse sin from the soul.

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