cleanse

CET-6 大学 FREQ #12433 ★★☆☆☆

vt. 使清洁, 净化, 使纯净 [建] 纯化, 净化, 精炼

发音

其它 /klɛnz/

词形变化

cleanses 复数 cleanses cleansed cleanses 三单 cleansest cleanseth cleansing cleansing 现在分词 cleansed 过去式 cleansed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

净化；使…纯净；使…清洁

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An act of cleansing; a purification.

    可数 不可数

    I regularly visit the spa for a massage and a facial cleanse.

v.
  1. 1.

    To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.

    清洗

    及物
  2. 2.

    To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.

    及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

clean

上位词 5

free rid groom disembarrass neaten

下位词 9

wash soap douche bathe floss lather decontaminate denazify lave

相关短语

ethnically cleanse

词源

From Middle English clensen, from Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“clean”). Cognate with West Frisian klinzgje (“to clean, cleanse”), archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean, purify”), Middle Low German klênsen, kleinsen, clensen (“to purify”).

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