0 past simple and past participle of cleanse
1 to make something completely clean:
It was that 'stain' that had to be removed for the monument to be cleansed.
It is interesting that in their discourse, the supporters of the demolition emphasised the sanctity of the monument and its need to be 'cleansed'.
That has cleansed the classical operatic heritage of the filth that has clung to it for many decades.
Cleansed is set in a sanatorium, somewhere on a university campus, in a rich western country.
With these scapegoats destroyed, the community itself is cleansed, ensuring that normality will return without further suffering.
Revivalists thought their salvation cleansed them of the pollution of sorcery.
The army annihilated, or ethnically cleansed, the village.
Then it could be channeled through a filter of formal logic and properly cleansed.
