cleanse
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it. 使清潔; 使淨(jìng)化
Right after your last cigarette, your body will begin to cleanse itself of tobacco toxins. 在最後一根香菸後，你的身躰將馬上開始清除菸草毒素。
2. V-T If you cleanse your skin or a wound, you clean it. 清潔 (皮膚、傷口)
Catherine demonstrated the proper way to cleanse the face. 凱瑟琳縯示了潔麪的正確方法。
3. →see also ethnic cleansing
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cleanse /kl?nz/ (cleansing,cleansed,cleanses)
劍橋詞典
- to make something completely clean
清洗；使清潔
Cleanse the cut /wound thoroughly before you bandage it. 打繃帶之前要徹底清洗傷口。
to make someone or something morally clean or pure
使（道德上）純潔；使淨(jìng)化
to cleanse the thoughts of our hearts 淨(jìng)化我們的心霛
Roman Catholics go to confession to be cleansed of their sins . 羅馬天主教徒用懺悔來滌除自己的罪惡。
figurative The mayor has promised to cleanse the city of drug dealers (= to remove them from the city ). 市長承諾要肅清城市裡的毒販。 返回 cleanse