To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it.
例句
Straight after your last cigarette your body will begin to cleanse itself of tobacco toxins...一旦停止抽煙，人體立刻就會開始清除體內的煙草毒素。It urged the party to cleanse its own ranks of those found guilty of human rights violations...它敦促該黨清除那些被判侵犯人權罪的黨員。
VERB
清理，清洗(皮膚或傷口)
If you cleanse your skin or a wound, you clean it.
例句
Catherine demonstrated the proper way to cleanse the face.凱瑟琳演示了潔面的正確方法。...cleansing lotions.清洗液
VERB
(軍隊)清洗，驅逐
If armed forces cleanse an area, they use violent methods to force certain groups of people to leave it and go to live elsewhere. You can also say that people are cleansed from an area.
例句
...a sustained and systematic effort to ethnically cleanse the entire province...在全省范圍開展的持續性、有計劃的種族清洗Many are refugees of three or four or even five other places where they've been cleansed from.許多人是從其他3個、4個甚至5個地方驅逐出來的難民。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the act of making something clean;
"he gave his shoes a good cleaning"
Adjective
1. cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands;