cleanse
verbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- //klɛnz//
To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
verbe
- 1
To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- 2
To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
[T]he famous Ganges: whoſe vnknowne head, pleaſant ſtreames, and long extent, haue amongſt thoſe Heathen Inhabitants, (by the Tradition of their Forefathers) gained a beliefe of clenſing all ſuch ſinnes, as the bodies of thoſe that waſh therein brought with them: [...]
- 3
To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
Étymologie
From Middle English clensen, from Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“clean”). Cognate with West Frisian klinzgje (“to clean, cleanse”), archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean, purify”), Middle Low German klênsen, kleinsen, clensen (“to purify”).
nom
- 1
An act of cleansing; a purification.
I regularly visit the spa for a massage and a facial cleanse.
Formes
- pluriel
- cleanses
- passé
- cleansed
- participe passé
- cleansed
- participe présent
- cleansing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- cleanses
cleanse · To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
cleansing · That cleanses.cleanup · The act of cleaning or tidying something.clear · Transparent in colour.