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cleansed

cleansed is the simple past and past participle of cleanse.

Meaning of cleanse

Verb

cleanse (third-person singular simple present cleanses, present participle cleansing, simple past and past participle cleansed)

  1. (transitive) 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.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
    Synonyms:
    deterge
  2. (transitive) 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: [...]1626, William Methold [i.e., William Methwold], “Relations of the Kingdome of Golchonda, and Other Neighbouring Nations within the Gulfe of Bengala, Arreccan, Pegu, Tennassery, &c. […]”, in [Samuel]...
  3. (transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.

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Words formed from cleansed

Phrases with cleansed

Questions about cleansed

What is cleansed the simple past and past participle of?
Cleansed is the simple past and past participle of cleanse.

Words near cleansed in the dictionary

  1. cleans up one's act
  2. cleans up one's plate
  3. cleansability
  4. cleansable
  5. cleanse
  6. cleansed
  7. cleanser
  8. cleansers
  9. cleanses
  10. cleansest
  11. cleanseth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleansed (page history and authors); cleanse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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