0 to make something completely clean -- 清洗；使清潔
It was that 'stain' that had to be removed for the monument to be cleansed.
There were serious efforts in the late eleventh century to cleanse the hymn repertory of certain excesses.
That has cleansed the classical operatic heritage of the filth that has clung to it for many decades.
Revivalists, many of them women, talked : they confessed private sins vocally, cleansing themselves of sorcerous familial strife.
I have a particular interest in some of the people who practise them, cleansing them from the stereotypes of so-called spontaneity.
Not unexpectedly it proved particularly effective in cleansing societies of substances associated with witchcraft.
By cleansing the world around them, purging it from evil and dirtiness, humans hoped to qualify themselves for eternal life.
Peace accords in resource-rich countries can only succeed when rebels use territory and resources to cleanse their record of atrocities.
