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as in purged
to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially
in an elaborate ritual the priestess cleansed the gathering of supplicants
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as in cleaned
to remove the dirt from
cleanse the wound with soap and water before applying the bandage
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Recent Examples of cleansed
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
Under eclipses, artifacts will also be corrupted and have drawbacks that can be cleansed by beating the world’s Overlord.
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Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
My skin was quenched and cleansed at once, and Vargas’ fluency in her craft made the time absolutely fly by.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
15 Mar. 2026
The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
When one heart is cleansed, the vibration of wholeness ripples outward.
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Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Once your face is cleansed, don’t reach for your face towel just yet.
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Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
28 Jan. 2026
The three pools source their water from a well in the grounds, which is then treated and distributed; and the Long Pool is treated and cleansed with natural salt instead of chlorine.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
This soap never strips the skin of moisture, leaving your face and body perfectly cleansed and your skin barrier stronger than before.
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Olivia Rose Rushing,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
Allen cleansed himself in the process.
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Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
Under eclipses, artifacts will also be corrupted and have drawbacks that can be cleansed by beating the world’s Overlord.
—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
My skin was quenched and cleansed at once, and Vargas’ fluency in her craft made the time absolutely fly by.
—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
15 Mar. 2026
The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there.
—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
When one heart is cleansed, the vibration of wholeness ripples outward.
—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Once your face is cleansed, don’t reach for your face towel just yet.
—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
28 Jan. 2026
The three pools source their water from a well in the grounds, which is then treated and distributed; and the Long Pool is treated and cleansed with natural salt instead of chlorine.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
This soap never strips the skin of moisture, leaving your face and body perfectly cleansed and your skin barrier stronger than before.
—
Olivia Rose Rushing,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleansed
Adjective
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Pre-washed rice has already been rinsed, so washing it again is unnecessary.
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Or toss in pre-washed strawberries for your next picnic at the park.
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At various points during his interview with Sobchak, Dugin called the sport of surfing evil and said that its practitioners should be purged.
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Burgum purged the department of roughly 13,000 staffers last year and announced efforts to reduce its workforce by even more in April.
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The pool is being cleaned twice annually, with 10 to 15 large truckloads of debris removed at each cleaning, the National Park Service reports.
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Berlin’s authorities are currently advising people to ensure clothes are thoroughly cleaned after every park visit and to keep windows and doors closed when possible.
Adjective
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This was a mouse study using a purified research-grade form of phytic acid, not the kind on your dinner plate.
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The work was done in mice using a purified form of phytic acid.
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.
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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.
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Nippon Dynawave employs hundreds to produce bleached paperboard that is used to make cartons and containers for products like juice and milk.
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Degummed fiber that has been scoured and either bleached or semi-bleached for knits and lightweight fabrics and yarn produced by Culturewell are also available.
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Rub a small amount of oil, like mayonnaise or vegetable oil, on the whitened area; natural oils should suffice.
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Gone are the days of matchy-matchy sets, sterile millennial greige, and stark black-and-white color palettes.
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Now, authorities in Texas are releasing sterile flies once more.
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“Cleansed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleansed. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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