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v. To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean.

v. To free from dirt; to clean, purify.

v. To spiritually purify; to free from sin or guilt; to purge.

v. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

To make clean; free from filth, impurity, infection, or, in general, from whatever is polluting, noxious, or offensive.

To free from moral impurity or guilt.

To remove; wash or purge away.

In calico-printing, to render (the undyed parts) white and clean by removing the excess of mordant from them by immersion in a bath of cow-dung and warm water, or in some artificial substitute; to dung.

In brewing, to remove the yeast from (the beer).

To become clean.

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

v. purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

"One of Stan Kasten's final missions as team president of the Nationals was assisting Major League Baseball in its ongoing effort to cleanse from the Dominican Republic corrupt practices in signing youthful players."

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purification    heal    regeneration    life-giving    re-demption    renewal    rinse    cleanliness    repentance    consecration