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rense

rense is the obsolete form of rinse.

Meaning of rinse

Verb

rinse (third-person singular simple present rinses, present participle rinsing, simple past and past participle rinsed)

  1. (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
    • You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
  2. (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
    • Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
  3. (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
    • Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.
  4. (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
    • Oscar uncapped his beer, rinsed the first mouthful around.1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51
  5. (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
    • You got rinsed.

See all 8 meanings of rinse

Forms of rense

third-person singular presentrenses
present participlerensing
past participlerensed
pastrensed

Questions about rense

What is rense the obsolete form of?
Rense is the obsolete form of rinse.

Words near rense in the dictionary

  1. renozzling
  2. Renpenning's syndrome
  3. rens
  4. Rensch
  5. Rensches
  6. rense
  7. rensed
  8. renses
  9. Renshaw
  10. Renshaw cell
  11. Renshaw cells

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