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cleanser

cleanser noun: someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.

cleanser: someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent
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Noun

cleanser (plural cleansers)

  1. Someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.
    • The Breeding of Worms in your Desks we cannot prevent, but for the moulding of the books, it may soon be remedied, if the Cleanser of the Library do his duty.1598–1599, Thomas Bodley, item; quoted in “Bodley, and the Bodleian. In Four Parts. Part IV. The Life-Work Done.”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume XXIX...
    • Lorraine Massey, a founder of Devachan, simply rinses and agitates her scalp with fingers (or uses a nonlathering cleanser like Devachan No-Poo).2008 February 21, Anna Jane Grossman, “Of Course I Washed My Hair Last Year (I’m Almost Certain)”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    cleaner

cleanser meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

cleanser in Hindi

साफ करने वाला

cleanser in Tamil

cleanser, detergent
அழுக்ககற்றி aḻukkakaṟṟi

cleanser in Urdu

صاف کرنے والا, کلینزر

cleanser in Bengali

ক্লিনজার
More languagesFewer languages
cleanser in Telugu
ప్రక్షాళనకారి
cleanser in Malayalam
ക്ലീൻസർ
cleanser in Kannada
ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಕ, ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಕಾರಿ, ಶುಭ್ರಕಾರಕ
cleanser in Punjabi
ਸਾਫ਼ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ, ਕਲੀਨਜ਼ਰ
cleanser in Gujarati
સફાઇ કરનાર, ક્લીંઝર

Examples of cleanser in a sentence

  • The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
  • Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.
  • He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.

All 14 example sentences with cleanser

Synonyms of cleanser

Forms of cleanser

pluralcleansers

Plural of cleanser: cleansers

Origin of cleanser

From Middle English clansere, clenser, clensere; equivalent to cleanse + -er.

Words formed from cleanser

Phrases with cleanser

Questions about cleanser

What does cleanser mean?
Cleanser means someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.
What is cleanser in Hindi?
Cleanser in Hindi is साफ करने वाला. See Cleanser meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cleanser?
Cleanser is a noun.
What is the plural of cleanser?
The plural of cleanser is cleansers.

Words near cleanser in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cleanser (page history and authors); cleanser (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); அழுக்ககற்றி (Tamil) (page history and authors); cleanser (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleanser (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleanser (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleanser (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleanser (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cleanser (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cleanser (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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