01 v. t. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
imp. & p. p.
Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cleansing
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To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.“If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.” — 1 John i. 7.“Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?” — Shak.