abluō — meaning in English

English meaning

• cleanse verb To make thoroughly clean or free of impurities.
• purify verb To remove impurities from something, making it clean or pure.

Senses

abluō is used for these senses in English:

• cleanse (transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
• purify (transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
• wash away To eliminate or destroy by fast-moving water, such as a flood or a high sea.
• wash off (ambitransitive, ditransitive) To remove (or be removed) by washing; to clean off (dirt or the thing that it is besmirching) by washing.
• wash out To remove something by washing.

cleanse — full definition

1. verb To make thoroughly clean or free of impurities.
2. verb To rid of something considered undesirable, corrupt, or sinful.

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