cleanse

Other forms of cleanse

past tense

cleansed·

present participle

cleansing·

third person

cleanses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cleanse

What does cleanse mean?

cleanse means "clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cleanse?

cleanse has 1 syllable: cleanse. In IPA it is /ˈklɛnz/.

What is another word for cleanse?

Close synonyms include clean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cleanse a common word?

cleanse is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.