Cleanse /(klĕnz)/

Cleanse

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing

  1. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
    If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.
    — 1 John i. 7.
    Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?