Soapy suds for cleansing hands and bodies usually contain fragrances.
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Employees in the vehicles do not have hand sanitizer or another method to cleanse hands while away from the station.
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I think it’s to cleanse their image more than anything, to wipe away the judgment and the perception that they are enemies of progress, which is what it seemed like back then.
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Underneath minimalistic names like Detox and Cleanse, enticing descriptions of the fluid medicine bags help narrow the choices.
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The bucket of water-filled prayers she will use three times to “cleanse away her shame.”
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“As a result, doing both exercise and a cleanse can leave you feeling tired, dizzy and nauseous,” she says.
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It also put the January “cleanse” into hilarious perspective.
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The cleanse, though, leaves out far too many nutritional basics to be safe for the long haul—and for many even the medium haul.
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The simplest is water; and water can purify many things; but there are some things which water cannot cleanse.
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All this is supposed to cleanse the child and make him a Christian.
The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies|Lev N. Tolstoy
Take a pinch of sulphur in the mouth and drink water behind it to cleanse the blood.
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Let the parts alone, and they will cleanse and care for themselves.
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living|H.W. Long
Accordingly we proceeded to cleanse our faces and our feet, and then proceeded to wash one another's feet.
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2|Joseph Smith
British Dictionary definitions for cleanse
cleanse
/ (klɛnz) /
verb(tr)
to remove dirt, filth, etc, from
to remove guilt from
to remove a group of people from (an area) by means of ethnic cleansing
Derived forms of cleanse
cleansable, adjective
Word Origin for cleanse
Old English clǣnsian; related to Middle Low German klēnsen; see clean