CLEANSE   

CAUSE TO BECOME CLEAN.
CLEANWIPESPONGESCRUBMOPSCOURSWAB
Hyponym
  • WASH CLEANSE USING WATER. (anc: 9/0, child: 1)
Hypernym
  • CLEAN LACK DIRT OR NOT CONTAIN DIRT, TYPICALLY on the SURFACE. (anc: 7/0, child: 1)
  • LACK SITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE. (anc: 6/0, child: 48)
  • SITUATION RELATION in which MANY HUMANS, FEATURES OR THINGS EXIST TOGETHER OR INTERACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 11)
  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 16

  • Words (5 items)

      shù OC: srus MC: ʂɨu 15 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viactrinse the mouth; wash one's mouth
    • vtoNrinse the mouth with
    • vtoN{PLACE}rince one's mouth at NCH
      xuě OC: sqled MC: siɛt 9 Attributions

    Xuě 雪 "clean away" and chú 除 "clear away" are both always causative and often figurative in meaning and therefore marginal to this group.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcausativeclean
    • vtoNcausativederived sense: wash away (guilt)
      chú OC: rla MC: ɖi̯ɤ 7 Attributions

    Xuě 雪 "clean away" and chú 除 "clear away" are both always causative and often figurative in meaning and therefore marginal to this group.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcausativeremove dirt> keep clean; clear away obstacles from
    • vtoNmiddle voicebe cleaned properly
    • vtoNpassivebe cleaned awayDS
    糞除  fèn chú OC: puns rla MC: pi̯un ɖi̯ɤ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNclean completely???
      lù MC: luwk OC: b-rooɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNfilterDS