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RELATED WORDS : cleansing agent ethnic cleansing

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Noun cleansing has 1 sense

• cleansing(n = noun.act) cleaning, cleanup - the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"
is a kind of improvement
has particulars: disinfestation, spring-cleaning, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, dry cleaning, sweeping, purge, purging, purification, sterilisation, sterilization, sanitation, sanitisation, sanitization, depilation, epilation, bathing, washup, housecleaning
Derived form verb cleanse₁

Adjective cleansing has 2 senses

• cleansing(s = adj.all) ablutionary - cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands; "ablutionary rituals"
• cleansing(s = adj.all) purifying - acting like an antiseptic; Array

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cleansing

abstergent, abstersion, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, ascetic, assuasive, atoning, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bowdlerization, catharsis, cathartic, cleaning, compensational, compensatory, deadening, deliverance, demulcent, depurative, detergent, detersion, discharge, diuretic, dry cleaning, dulling, easing, emetic, emollient, emotional release, expiatory, expurgation, expurgatory, freeing, intermission, lenitive, lustral, lustration, lustrational, lustrative, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgation, purgative, purgatorial, purge, purging, purification, purificatory, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, release, relieving, remedial, removal, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, reprieve, respite, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, softening, soothing, squaring, steam cleaning, subduing, surcease, suspension

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cleansing

Cleanness

N cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation, ablution, lavation, colature, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman, sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative, clean, cleanly, pure, immaculate, spotless, stainless, taintless, trig, without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected, sweet, sweet as a nut, neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens, cleaned, kempt, abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying, neatly, clean as a whistle.

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