cleansed

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cleansed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cleanse \Cleanse\ (kl[e^]nz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed
     (kl[e^]nzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] [AS. cl[=ae]nsian,
     fr. cl[=ae]ne clean. See Clean.]
     To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection,
     guilt, etc.; to clean.
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           If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ
           his son cleanseth us from all sin.       --1 John i. 7.
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           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?             --Shak.
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  cleansed \cleansed\ (kl[e^]nzd), adj.
     having been made clean. Opposite of dirty. clean
  
     Syn: cleaned, scrubbed.
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