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cleansing
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cleansing
abstergent, abstersion, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, ascetic, assuasive, atoning, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bowdlerization, catharsis, cathartic, cleaning, compensational, compensatory, deadening, deliverance, demulcent, depurative, detergent, detersion, discharge, diuretic, dry cleaning, dulling, easing, emetic, emollient, emotional release, expiatory, expurgation, expurgatory, freeing, intermission, lenitive, lustral, lustration, lustrational, lustrative, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgation, purgative, purgatorial, purge, purging, purification, purificatory, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, release, relieving, remedial, removal, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, reprieve, respite, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, softening, soothing, squaring, steam cleaning, subduing, surcease, suspensionROGET THESAURUS
cleansing
Cleanness
N cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation, ablution, lavation, colature, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman, sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative, clean, cleanly, pure, immaculate, spotless, stainless, taintless, trig, without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected, sweet, sweet as a nut, neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens, cleaned, kempt, abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying, neatly, clean as a whistle.Also see definition of "cleansing" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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