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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Cleanse

/(klĕnz)/ · IPA /klɛnz/
01 v. t. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
imp. & p. p. Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing
  1. 1.
    To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
    “If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.” — 1 John i. 7.
    “Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?” Shak.