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cleansingnoun the act or fact of freeing from sin or moral guiltunderwent a cleansing before he could enter the temple's most sacred chamber purification, sanctification rebirth, regeneration, restorationgrace, redemption, salvationabsolution, forgiveness, remissionacquittal, clearance, clearing, exoneration, vindicationatonement, expiation blasphemy, defilement, desecration, profanation, violationcorruption, debasement, perversioncontamination, pollution, sullying, tarnishing cleansingverbpresent participle of cleanseto free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremoniallyin an elaborate ritual the priestess cleansed the gathering of supplicants purging, purifying, sanctifying amending, improving, refininghealing, regenerating, restoringelevating, ennobling, upliftingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exonerating, vindicating corrupting, debasing, debauching, defiling, degrading, demeaning, depraving, perverting, staining, warpingpoisoning, profaning, prostitutingsullying, tarnishing to remove the dirt fromcleanse the wound with soap and water before applying the bandage cleaning, deterging, GI'ing, turning out decontaminating, purging, purifyingdisinfecting, sanitizingbrushing, combing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, mucking (out), rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, shampooing, sponging, swabbing, sweeping, vacuuming, washing, wipingbrightening, deodorizing, freshening, sprucing (up), sweeteningpicking up, straightening (up), tidying, uncluttering besmirching, dirtying, fouling, soiling, spotting, staining, sullying begriming, muddyingdefiling, polluting, taintingblackening, discoloring |