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say it: KLEN-zing
cleansing is an adjective and noun meaning "cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands". It carries 3 recorded senses.
cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands
“ablutionary rituals”
acting like an antiseptic
the act of making something clean
“he gave his shoes a good cleaning”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cleansing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.