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Word Meanings - CLEANSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. (more info) Etym:

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  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • SCRUBBY
    Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
  • BATHE
    1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. 2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And
  • SPONGE
    Any one of numerous species of Spongiæ, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiæ. 2. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiæ , used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable
  • SCRUBBER
    A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
  • SCRUBBED
    Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
  • PURGER
    One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
  • SCOURAGE
    Refuse water after scouring.
  • RINSER
    One who, or that which, rinses.
  • SCRUBBOARD
    A baseboard; a mopboard.
  • CLEANSE
    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
  • PURGERY
    The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
  • BATHER
    One who bathes.
  • PURGE
    To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt,
  • SCOURSE
    See SCORSE
  • RINSE
    1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. 2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.
  • SCRUB
    To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
  • SCOURGER
    One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.
  • ABSTERGENT
    Serving to cleanse, detergent.
  • CLEANSER
    One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
  • DISCOURAGING
    Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
  • DISCOURSIVE
    1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined
  • DISCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • REPURIFY
    To purify again.
  • OFFSCOURING
    That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.
  • GLASS-SPONGE
    A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMBATHE
    To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
  • DISCOURE
    To discover. That none might her discoure. Spenser.
  • DISCOURTESY
    Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
  • SPURGE
    To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.

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