Cleanse
[klenz] or [klɛnz]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; 'clean up before you see your grandparents'; 'clean your fingernails before dinner'.
(verb.) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; 'Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins'.
安妮編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
校對:莫利
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Purify, clean, make clean, free from dirt.
杰里米整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make clean or pure.—adj. Cleans′able.—ns. Cleans′er one who or that which cleanses; Cleans′ing purification.
吉塞尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Cleanse the articles and put them in the solution for from 1/2 to 1 hour. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Mouth washes are a valuable addition to the toilet as they assist to harden and heal the gums, cleanse the mouth and purify the breath. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- These smearings and scratchings, washings and dashings, being duly performed, the next ceremonial is to cleanse and replace the distracted furniture. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Go down on your knees and pray to God to cleanse your wicked ungrateful heart, Amelia, and may He forgive you as I do. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Cotton, and speculations, and smoke, well-cleansed and well-cared-for machinery, and unwashed and neglected hands. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- After a bath in the hypo the plate is cleansed in clear running water and left to dry. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- With the idea of uncleanness would come ideas of cleansing and of removing a curse. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- While soap is, generally speaking, the best cleansing agent, there are occasions when other substances can be used to better advantage. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As a cleansing agent it is valueless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Who had begun the cleansing of the marble, and who had left it unfinished? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I saw her kiss the white cross, then kneel down before the inscription, and apply her wet cloth to the cleansing of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The openness cleanses it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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