cleansed 1 of 2

past tense of cleanse

cleansed

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cleansed
Adjective
The duo doesn’t skimp on the salon experience either—a clean, floral scent smells like a fresh blowout, while the formulas leave hair fresh, soft, and deeply cleansed. Annie Blackman, Allure, 7 Oct. 2025 With straight-forward fits and washes, Burberry and Gucci cleansed the palette for bolder and brasher Spring/Summer 2026 designs by labels like Harri, Natasha Zinko and Yaku. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025 Certainly, the urban vanguard of the revolution have not so much cleansed the country’s politics as expanded it. Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Your skin is cleansed with a topical antiseptic, like alcohol or povidone-iodine, to help prevent infections. Carley Millhone, Health, 9 Sep. 2025 The cells are collected, cleansed, and injected into the patient’s joint, ligament, or tendon. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleansed
Verb
  • Reuters — Two top Chinese military leaders have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and the military on corruption charges, the country’s defense ministry said on Friday, the most senior officers to be purged in an anti-graft drive that began in 2023.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This suggests that snow leopards have purged bad mutations within their population periodically over time, which eliminated potential disadvantageous impacts from historic inbreeding and allowed populations to remain healthy despite small numbers, according to the paper.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Considerations Before Getting Started While many upholstered chairs can be cleaned with water, others require special solvents or cleaning products.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Fabrics are shredded, cleaned, and spun into new yarn.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Pre-washed greens, like those in salad kits, aren’t immune to these issues.
    Danielle Zickl, Health, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing is pre-washed and none of the ingredients for my recipes were pre-cut.
    Alexis Berger, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Use bottled or purified water for drinking and brushing your teeth when traveling or camping.
    Brandi Jones, Health, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The entire development integrates wellness at every level — from biophilic design elements to organic materials, purified air systems, and toxin-free materials.
    The Well Coconut Grove, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 25 May 2024
  • There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.
    Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Even so, Ortega’s look at the Wednesday premiere in London with bleached brows, shimmery smoky eyes, and oxblood lips was polarizing.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Outside of the Morgan collection, Amber Lewis’ Topanga collection has some of my personal favorites—things that inhabit the Jenni Kayne laidback and bleached-bone style of America’s more arid climates.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Premier League football in the 2000s could be dramatic and explosive, but what the nostalgia for that era ignores is the number of dour, sterile games there were, many of them settled by a goal from a set piece.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The surgeon withdraws the balloon and then squeezes the implant in through a sterile funnel before closing the incision.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Only 46% of Madagascar has access to drinking water, only 15% have an adequate sanitary system, and as a result, children are more prone to chronic illness and malnutrition.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In Utah, like Rocky Mountain National Park, basic park services such as search-and-rescue and sanitary needs have been covered by fee revenue collected by the parks prior to the shutdown.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Cleansed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleansed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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